GHSA-vj49-j7rc-h54f

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vj49-j7rc-h54f
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2023/08/GHSA-vj49-j7rc-h54f/GHSA-vj49-j7rc-h54f.json
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https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-vj49-j7rc-h54f
Aliases
Published
2023-08-25T21:30:48Z
Modified
2024-02-16T08:20:00.209350Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Esoteric YamlBeans XML Entity Expansion vulnerability
Details

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.

Database specific
{
    "nvd_published_at": "2023-08-25T20:15:07Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-400",
        "CWE-611"
    ],
    "severity": "MODERATE",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2023-08-25T22:04:01Z"
}
References

Affected packages

Maven / com.esotericsoftware.yamlbeans:yamlbeans

Package

Name
com.esotericsoftware.yamlbeans:yamlbeans
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Purl
pkg:maven/com.esotericsoftware.yamlbeans/yamlbeans

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Last affected
1.15

Affected versions

1.*

1.06
1.08
1.09
1.11
1.12
1.13
1.14
1.15