snakeyaml up to 1.30 Depth denial of service

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in snakeyaml up to 1.30. This affects an unknown function of the component Depth Handler. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2022-25857. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in snakeyaml up to 1.30. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component Depth Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

The package org.yaml:snakeyaml from 0 and before 1.31 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due missing to nested depth limitation for collections.

The weakness was presented 08/30/2022 as 525. The advisory is available at bitbucket.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2022-25857 since 02/24/2022. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 235116 (RHEL 7 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.13 (RHSA-2025:4437)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 1.31 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch fc300780da21f4bb92c148bc90257201220cf174 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (235116). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Name

• snakeyaml

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15
• 1.16
• 1.17
• 1.18
• 1.19
• 1.20
• 1.21
• 1.22
• 1.23
• 1.24
• 1.25
• 1.26
• 1.27
• 1.28
• 1.29
• 1.30

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/

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