GHSA-vj49-j7rc-h54fMediumCVSS 5.5

Esoteric YamlBeans XML Entity Expansion vulnerability

Published
August 25, 2023
Last Modified
November 9, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

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.

🎯 Affected products1

  • maven/com.esotericsoftware.yamlbeans:yamlbeans:<= 1.15

🔗 References (5)