Vulnerability CVE-2017-18640
Published: 2019-12-12

Description:
The Alias feature in SnakeYAML 1.18 allows entity expansion during a load operation, a related issue to CVE-2003-1564.

Type:

CWE-776

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Snakeyaml project -> Snakeyaml 

 References:
https://bitbucket.org/asomov/snakeyaml/issues/377/allow-configuration-for-preventing-billion
https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.yaml/snakeyaml/1.25/usages
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