Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in snakeyaml

HIGH 7.5CVE-2022-25857 · GHSA-3mc7-4q67-w48m · Published 30/08/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-25857 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting org.yaml:snakeyaml, snakeyaml (snakeyaml project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.9%, higher than 87.1% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.31 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
org.yaml:snakeyaml Maven	`< 1.31`	`1.31`
snakeyaml snakeyaml_project	`< 1.31`	`1.31`

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.

NVD 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.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

org.yaml:snakeyaml

Maven

< 1.31

1.31

snakeyaml

snakeyaml_project

< 1.31

1.31

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.

NVD 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.

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