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CVE-2017-11692

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-07-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-617

Description

The function "Token& Scanner::peek" in scanner.cpp in yaml-cpp 0.5.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) via a '!2' string.

Affected products

• Yaml-Cpp Project Yaml-Cpp: through 0.5.3

References

• https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp/issues/519
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-14
• https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp/issues/519
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-14

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