A vulnerability was found in serde_yaml 0.6.0/0.8.3. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown code block of the component Deserialization. The manipulation as part of a YAML File leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

serde serde_yaml 0.6.0 to 0.8.3 is affected by: Uncontrolled Recursion. The impact is: Denial of service by aborting. The component is: from_* functions (all deserialization functions). The attack vector is: Parsing a malicious YAML file. The fixed version is: 0.8.4 and later.

The weakness was shared 07/25/2019. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2019-1010183 since 03/20/2019. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 0.8.4 eliminates this vulnerability.

The entries VDB-146005, VDB-146671, VDB-147070 and VDB-147328 are related to this item.

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