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WS-2018-0546

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Date: November 3, 2024

The package serde-yaml in versions 0.6.0 through 0.8.x before 0.8.4 not properly check for recursion while deserializing aliases. This allows an attacker to make a YAML file with an alias referring to itself causing an abort.

Language: RUST

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Related Resources (6)

https://github.com/dtolnay/serde-yaml/commit/b93aff6e904cffbbfd1f421b82f6dcc5ca19a4fd
https://github.com/dtolnay/serde-yaml
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2018-0005.html
https://crates.io/crates/serde_yaml
https://github.com/dtolnay/serde-yaml/pull/105
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/WS-2018-0546

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

CWE-400

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

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