Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By snyk
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| snykCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (7 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
- Denial of Service (DoS)
- CWE-776 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-776 and its CVEs
Affected products
org.yaml:snakeyaml
- affected < unspecified
- affected unspecified – < 1.31
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.yaml:snakeyamlGHSA-3mc7-4q67-w48m (opens in a new tab)
References (6)
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGYAML-2806360 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://bitbucket.org/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/commits/fc300780da21f4bb92c148bc90257201220cf174 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/commit/fc300780da21f4bb92c148bc90257201220cf174 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://bitbucket.org/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/issues/525 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20221002 [SECURITY] [DLA 3132-1] snakeyaml security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240315-0010/ (opens in a new tab)x_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-3mc7-4q67-w48m (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2022-25857)Record last updated .