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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.5 Medium

CVE-2021-4235

Denial of service in gopkg.in/yaml.v2

Description

Due to unbounded alias chasing, a maliciously crafted YAML file can cause the system to consume significant system resources. If parsing user input, this may be used as a denial of service vector.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

gopkg.in/yaml.v2 gopkg.in/yaml.v2

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 2.2.3affected

github.com/go-yaml/yaml github.com/go-yaml/yaml

Default version status: affected

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