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CVE-2023-24620GHSA-VJ49-J7RC-H54F

An issue was discovered in Esoteric YamlBeans through 1.15.

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Not listed in CISA KEV
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

  • com.esotericsoftware.yamlbeans:yamlbeansMaven

    through 1.15

References 3

github.com

contrastsecurity.com

GitHub · Contrast-Security-OSS/yamlbeans