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Red Hat JBoss EAP: CVE-2022-25857: XML Entity Expansion

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 30, 2022
Added
Sep 19, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

The package org.yaml:snakeyaml from 0 and before 1.31 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due missing to nested depth limitation for collections.. A flaw was found in the org.yaml.snakeyaml package. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) due to missing nested depth limitation for collections.

Solution

red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest
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