CVE-2023-28118 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

kaml provides YAML support for kotlinx.serialization. Prior to version 0.53.0, applications that use kaml to parse untrusted input containing anchors and aliases may consume excessive memory and crash. Version 0.53.0 and later default to refusing to parse YAML documents containing anchors and aliases. There are no known workarounds.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00178.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Kaml Project	Kaml

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:kaml_project:kaml:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-0975	kaml provides YAML support for kotlinx.serialization. Prior to version 0.53.0, applications that use kaml to parse untrusted input containing anchors and aliases may consume excessive memory and crash. Version 0.53.0 and later default to refusing to parse YAML documents containing anchors and aliases. There are no known workarounds.
Github GHSA	GHSA-c24f-2j3g-rg48	kaml has potential denial of service while parsing input with anchors and aliases

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/charleskorn/kaml/commit/5f82a2d7e00bfc307afca05d1dc4d7c50593531a
https://github.com/charleskorn/kaml/releases/tag/0.53.0
https://github.com/charleskorn/kaml/security/advisories/GHSA-c24f-2j3g-rg48

History

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2023-03-20T12:39:42.075Z

Updated: 2025-02-25T14:52:56.789Z

Reserved: 2023-03-10T18:34:29.228Z

Link: CVE-2023-28118

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T12:30:24.221Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-03-20T13:15:11.877

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:54:26.560

Link: CVE-2023-28118

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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