An issue was discovered in Esoteric YamlBeans through 1.15. A crafted YAML document is able perform am XML Entity Expansion attack against YamlBeans YamlReader. By exploiting the Anchor feature in YAML, it is possible to generate a small YAML document that, when read, is expanded to a large size, causing CPU and memory consumption, such as a Java Out-of-Memory exception.
{
"github_reviewed_at": "2023-08-25T22:04:01Z",
"severity": "MODERATE",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400",
"CWE-611"
],
"github_reviewed": true,
"nvd_published_at": "2023-08-25T20:15:07Z"
}