CVE-2017-18640

Publication date 12 December 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

The Alias feature in SnakeYAML before 1.26 allows entity expansion during a load operation, a related issue to CVE-2003-1564.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
snakeyaml	24.10 oracular	Needs evaluation
	24.04 LTS noble	Needs evaluation
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Needs evaluation
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	21.04 hirsute	Ignored end of life
	20.10 groovy	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Needs evaluation
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation
	14.04 LTS trusty	Needs evaluation

Notes

alexmurray

Upstream dispute this as a valid CVE - https://bitbucket.org/asomov/snakeyaml/issues/377/allow-configuration-for-preventing-billion#comment-55227358 - and they added a test-case for this type of attack of 2 years ago https://bitbucket.org/asomov/snakeyaml/commits/04378d05777d21d114a9cdc24976ad49c8919222 so this would appear to be a non-issue

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H