CVE-2023-24620

Published Aug 25, 2023 CVSS 3.1 · 5.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
An issue was discovered in Esoteric YamlBeans through 1.15. A crafted YAML document is able perform am XML Entity Expansion attack against YamlBeans YamlReader. By exploiting the Anchor feature in YAML, it is possible to generate a small YAML document that, when read, is expanded to a large size, causing CPU and memory consumption, such as a Java Out-of-Memory exception.

Remediation

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-2362 An issue was discovered in Esoteric YamlBeans through 1.15. A crafted YAML document is able perform am XML Entity Expansion attack against YamlBeans YamlReader. By exploiting the Anchor feature in YAML, it is possible to generate a small YAML document that, when read, is expanded to a large size, causing CPU and memory consumption, such as a Java Out-of-Memory exception.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-vj49-j7rc-h54f Esoteric YamlBeans XML Entity Expansion vulnerability
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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Oct 2, 2024, 6:08 PM
Reserved
Jan 30, 2023, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Aug 25, 2023, 8:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 5:39 AM