medium5.5
CVE-2023-24620
Esoteric YamlBeans XML Entity Expansion vulnerability
Impact
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
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| maven | com.esotericsoftware.yamlbeans:yamlbeans | <= 1.15 | none recorded |
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Esotericsoftware | Yamlbeans | through 1.15 |