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.
{ "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" }