CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-1010182

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: Jul 25, 2019 | Modified: Aug 24, 2020
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

yaml-rust 0.4.0 and earlier is affected by: Uncontrolled Recursion. The impact is: Denial of service by impossible to catch abort. The component is: YamlLoader::load_from_str function. The attack vector is: Parsing of a malicious YAML document. The fixed version is: 0.4.1 and later.

Weakness

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Yaml-rust Yaml-rust_project * 0.4.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References