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yaml package for Go can consume excessive amounts of CPU or memory

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Dec 28, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Oct 26, 2023

Package

gomod gopkg.in/yaml.v2 (Go)

Affected versions

< 2.2.4

Patched versions

2.2.4

Description

Parsing malicious or large YAML documents can consume excessive amounts of CPU or memory

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 27, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 28, 2022
Reviewed Dec 30, 2022
Last updated Oct 26, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-3064

GHSA ID

GHSA-6q6q-88xp-6f2r

Source code

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