Vulnerability CVE-2018-1000210


Published: 2018-07-13

Description:
YamlDotNet version 4.3.2 and earlier contains a Insecure Direct Object Reference vulnerability in The default behavior of Deserializer.Deserialize() will deserialize user-controlled types in the line "currentType = Type.GetType(nodeEvent.Tag.Substring(1), throwOnError: false);" and blindly instantiates them. that can result in Code execution in the context of the running process. This attack appear to be exploitable via Victim must parse a specially-crafted YAML file. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 5.0.0.

Type:

CWE-502

(Deserialization of Untrusted Data)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Yamldotnet project -> Yamldotnet 

 References:
https://github.com/aaubry/YamlDotNet#version-500
https://github.com/aaubry/YamlDotNet/blob/f96b7cc40a0498f8bafdeb49df3aa23aa2c60993/YamlDotNet/Serialization/NodeTypeResolvers/TypeNameInTagNodeTypeResolver.cs#L35

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