CVE-2025-40908

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40908
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-40908.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-40908
Downstream
ALSA (2)
AZL (2)
DEBIAN (1)
MGASA (1)
OESA (1)
openSUSE (1)
RHSA (3)
RLSA (2)
ROOT (1)
SUSE (4)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
ALSA (2)
openSUSE (1)
SUSE (4)
Published
2025-06-01T13:41:48Z
Modified
2026-10-28T02:30:47Z
Severity
  • 9.1 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
YAML-LibYAML prior to 0.903.0 for Perl uses 2-args open, allowing existing files to be modified
Details

YAML-LibYAML prior to 0.903.0 for Perl uses 2-args open, allowing existing files to be modified

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "CPANSec",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-552"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/40xxx/CVE-2025-40908.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/ingydotnet/yaml-libyaml-pm

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ingydotnet/yaml-libyaml-pm
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
21e6be95a3f9bf92c34ebbcf69feafe3a60bff5a
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "0.903.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "strategy": "StandardRange"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ingydotnet:yaml-libyaml:*:*:*:*:*:perl:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "0.903.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_RANGE"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.34
0.35
0.36
0.37
0.38
0.39
0.40
0.41
0.42
0.43
0.44
0.45
0.46
0.47
0.48
0.49
0.50
0.51
0.52
0.53
0.54
0.55
0.56
0.57
0.58
0.59
0.60
0.61
0.62
0.62_001
0.62_002
0.63
0.63_001
0.63_002
0.64
0.65
0.66
0.66_001
0.66_002
0.67
0.67_001
0.68
0.68_001
0.68_002
0.69
0.69_001
0.70
0.72
0.72_01
0.74
0.75
0.75_001
0.76
0.77
0.77_001
0.78
0.78_001
0.78_002
0.79
0.79_001
0.80
0.81
0.82
0.82_001
0.83
0.84
0.85
0.86
0.87
0.88
0.88_001
0.89
0.90
Other
chansen
v0.*
v0.901.0
v0.902.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-40908.json"