CVE-2021-4235

Summary

CVECVE-2021-4235
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-12-27 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-07-06 00:15:00 UTC
DescriptionDue to unbounded alias chasing, a maliciously crafted YAML file can cause the system to consume significant system resources. If parsing user input, this may be used as a denial of service vector.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Yaml Project Yaml All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Add logic to catch cases of alias abuse. · go-yaml/yaml@bb4e33b · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 3479-1] golang-yaml.v2 security update MISC lists.debian.org
Add a decoder option to limit the number of unmarshalled values by simonferquel · Pull Request #375 · go-yaml/yaml · GitHub MISC github.com
GO-2021-0061 - Go Packages MISC pkg.go.dev
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 181577 Debian Security Update for golang-yaml.v2 (CVE-2021-4235)
  • 199656 Ubuntu Security Notification for Go yaml Vulnerabilities (USN-6287-1)
  • 241070 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 Security Update (RHSA-2022:7398)
  • 6000135 Debian Security Update for golang-yaml.v2 (DLA 3479-1)
  • 770172 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 Security Update (RHSA-2022:7398)
  • 904947 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for etcd (12325)
  • 905116 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for application-gateway-kubernetes-ingress (12459)
  • 905186 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for etcd (12907)
  • 905220 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for application-gateway-kubernetes-ingress (12929)
  • 905267 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for etcd (12907)
  • 905403 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for etcd (12907-1)
  • 906801 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for etcd (12907-3)
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