{"id":"CVE-2022-38751","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2022-38751","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:52:36.862Z","title":"Using snakeYAML to parse untrusted YAML files may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS).","description":"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 stackoverflow.","published":"2022-09-05T10:15:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T04:57:07.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve-coordination@google.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-121","CWE-787"],"affected":["snakeyaml project/snakeyaml","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.01905,"percentile":0.79578,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.91%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://bitbucket.org/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/issues/530/stackoverflow-oss-fuzz-47039","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve-coordination@google.com"},{"url":"https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=47039","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve-coordination@google.com"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00001.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve-coordination@google.com"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-28","source":"cve-coordination@google.com"},{"url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240315-0010/","source":"cve-coordination@google.com"},{"url":"https://bitbucket.org/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/issues/530/stackoverflow-oss-fuzz-47039","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=47039","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00001.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-28","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240315-0010/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38751","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}