CVE-2017-5950

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5950
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5950.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-5950
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-04-03T05:59:00.800Z
Modified
2026-07-08T12:40:58.773650Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The SingleDocParser::HandleNode function in yaml-cpp (aka LibYaml-C++) 0.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a crafted YAML file.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp
Events
Database specific
{
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:yaml-cpp_project:yaml-cpp:0.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0.5.3"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.5.3"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.5.3
release-0.*
release-0.5.3
yaml-cpp-0.*
yaml-cpp-0.5.3

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5950.json"