🛡️ OESA-2023-1165 — snakeyaml

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

snakeyaml security update

SnakeYAML is a YAML parser and emitter for the Java Virtual Machine. YAML is a data serialization format designed for human readability and interaction with scripting languages.

Security Fix(es):

The package org.yaml:snakeyaml from 0 and before 1.31 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due missing to nested depth limitation for collections.(CVE-2022-25857)

Using snakeYAML to parse untrusted YAML files may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS). If the parser is running on user supplied input, an attacker may supply content that causes the parser to crash by stackoverflow.(CVE-2022-38749)

Using snakeYAML to parse untrusted YAML files may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS). If the parser is running on user supplied input, an attacker may supply content that causes the parser to crash by stackoverflow.(CVE-2022-38750)

Using snakeYAML to parse untrusted YAML files may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS). If the parser is running on user supplied input, an attacker may supply content that causes the parser to crash by stackoverflow.(CVE-2022-38751)

Using snakeYAML to parse untrusted YAML files may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS). If the parser is running on user supplied input, an attacker may supply content that causes the parser to crash by stack-overflow.(CVE-2022-38752)

Those using Snakeyaml to parse untrusted YAML files may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS). If the parser is running on user supplied input, an attacker may supply content that causes the parser to crash by stack overflow. This effect may support a denial of service attack.(CVE-2022-41854)

Affected software

OESA-2023-1165 is recorded against 1 package.

  • snakeyaml (fixed in 1.32-1.oe1)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 March 2023 and last revised on 3 September 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

www.openeuler.org (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-03-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2025-09-03
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
snakeyaml 1.32-1.oe1

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