CVE-2022-41854
Stack Overflow in Snakeyaml
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Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Google
- 42 days later
· 42 days later
Published
- 23 months later
· 23 months 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GoogleCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 25% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.8.
Weakness
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.yaml:snakeyamlGHSA-w37g-rhq8-7m4j (opens in a new tab)
References (6)
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=50355 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-c01dd659fa (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-8a4e8aa190 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2023-27ec59a486 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240315-0009/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0006/ (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-w37g-rhq8-7m4j (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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