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GHSA-C24F-2J3G-RG48

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-03-20 21:26 – Updated: 2023-03-20 21:26

Summary

kaml has potential denial of service while parsing input with anchors and aliases

Details

Impact

Applications that use kaml to parse untrusted input containing anchors and aliases may consume excessive memory and crash.

Patches

Version 0.53.0 and later default to refusing to parse YAML documents containing anchors and aliases.

Workarounds

None.

References

Wikipedia has an explanation of this class of vulnerability: billion laughs attack

Acknowledgements

Thank you to @gdude2002 for reporting this issue.

Severity ?

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2023-28118 (GCVE-0-2023-28118)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-20 12:39 – Updated: 2025-02-25 14:52

Summary

kaml provides YAML support for kotlinx.serialization. Prior to version 0.53.0, applications that use kaml to parse untrusted input containing anchors and aliases may consume excessive memory and crash. Version 0.53.0 and later default to refusing to parse YAML documents containing anchors and aliases. There are no known workarounds.

Severity ?

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-776 - Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/charleskorn/kaml/security/advi…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://github.com/charleskorn/kaml/commit/5f82a2…	x_refsource_MISC
	https://github.com/charleskorn/kaml/releases/tag/0.53.0	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	charleskorn	kaml	Affected: < 0.53.0

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

Action not permitted

GHSA-C24F-2J3G-RG48

Impact

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Workarounds

References

Acknowledgements

CVE-2023-28118 (GCVE-0-2023-28118)

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