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CVE-2018-20993
An issue was discovered in the yaml-rust crate before 0.4.1 for Rust. There is uncontrolled recursion during deserialization.
High7.5EPSS 1.4%
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- mitre
Description
An issue was discovered in the yaml-rust crate before 0.4.1 for Rust. There is uncontrolled recursion during deserialization.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 27% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- crates.ioyaml-rustGHSA-hv87-47h9-jcvq (opens in a new tab)
References (1)
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2018-0006.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-hv87-47h9-jcvq (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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