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Medium · 5.5 CVE-2023-24620 EUVD-2023-2362GHSA-vj49-j7rc-h54f

Esoteric YamlBeans XML Entity Expansion vulnerability

Published Aug 25, 2023 · Updated Oct 2, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

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 packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven com.esotericsoftware.yamlbeans:yamlbeans <= 1.15 — GHSA-vj49-j7rc-h54f

References