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GHSA-c24f-2j3g-rg48: kaml has potential denial of service while parsing input with anchors and aliases

Impact

Applications that use kaml to parse untrusted input containing anchors and aliases may consume excessive memory and crash.

Patches

Version 0.53.0 and later default to refusing to parse YAML documents containing anchors and aliases.

Workarounds

None.

References

Wikipedia has an explanation of this class of vulnerability: billion laughs attack

Acknowledgements

Thank you to @gdude2002 for reporting this issue.

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Package

maven com.charleskorn.kaml:kaml (Maven)

Affected versions

< 0.53.0

Patched versions

0.53.0

Description

Impact

Applications that use kaml to parse untrusted input containing anchors and aliases may consume excessive memory and crash.

Patches

Version 0.53.0 and later default to refusing to parse YAML documents containing anchors and aliases.

Workarounds

None.

References

Wikipedia has an explanation of this class of vulnerability: billion laughs attack

Acknowledgements

Thank you to @gdude2002 for reporting this issue.

References

  • GHSA-c24f-2j3g-rg48
  • https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28118
  • charleskorn/kaml@5f82a2d
  • https://github.com/charleskorn/kaml/releases/tag/0.53.0

charleskorn published to charleskorn/kaml

Mar 18, 2023

Published by the National Vulnerability Database

Mar 20, 2023

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database

Mar 20, 2023

Reviewed

Mar 20, 2023

Last updated

Mar 20, 2023

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CVE-2023-28118: Release 0.53.0 · charleskorn/kaml

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.