CVE-2023-28118

Summary

CVECVE-2023-28118
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-03-20 13:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-03-24 18:00:00 UTC
Descriptionkaml 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-776

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Kaml Project Kaml All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Default to not parsing anchors and aliases to prevent "billion laughs… · charleskorn/kaml@5f82a2d · GitHub MISC github.com
Potential denial of service while parsing input with anchors and aliases · Advisory · charleskorn/kaml · GitHub MISC github.com
Release 0.53.0 · charleskorn/kaml · GitHub MISC github.com
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