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CVE-2022-25857 (GCVE-0-2022-25857)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-30 05:05 – Updated: 2024-09-16 21:57
VLAI
Title
Denial of Service (DoS)
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • Denial of Service (DoS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a org.yaml:snakeyaml Affected: 0 , < unspecified (custom)
Affected: unspecified , < 1.31 (custom)
Date Public
2022-08-30 00:00
Credits
unknown
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