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CVE-2022-25857: Denial of Service (DoS)

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-08-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-776

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.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 10.0
• SnakeYAML: before 1.31 — fixed in 1.31
• Maven Org.Yaml:Snakeyaml: before 1.31; 1.10, 1.11, 1.12, 1.13, 1.14, 1.15 (+21) — fixed in 1.31

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: SnakeYAML 1.31; Maven Org.Yaml:Snakeyaml 1.31. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bitbucket.org/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/commits/fc300780da21f4bb92c148bc90257201220cf174
• https://bitbucket.org/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/issues/525
• https://github.com/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/commit/fc300780da21f4bb92c148bc90257201220cf174
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00001.html
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240315-0010/
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGYAML-2806360
• https://bitbucket.org/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/commits/fc300780da21f4bb92c148bc90257201220cf174
• https://bitbucket.org/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/issues/525
• https://github.com/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/commit/fc300780da21f4bb92c148bc90257201220cf174
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00001.html
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240315-0010/
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGYAML-2806360

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