CVE-2014-2525: Opensuse Leap

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 8.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the yaml_parser_scan_uri_escapes function in LibYAML before 0.1.6 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long sequence of percent-encoded characters in a URI in a YAML file.

Affected products

• Opensuse Leap: version 42.1 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only; version 13.2 only
• Pyyaml Libyaml: up to and including 0.1.5; version 0.0.1 only; version 0.1.1 only; version 0.1.2 only; version 0.1.3 only; version 0.1.4 only

Published 2014-03-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.