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CVE-2023-24620

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2023-08-25 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Esotericsoftware Yamlbeans

Weakness Type

CWE-611

References