CVE-2019-6292: Yaml-Cpp Project Yaml-Cpp

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in singledocparser.cpp in yaml-cpp (aka LibYaml-C++) 0.6.2. Stack Exhaustion occurs in YAML::SingleDocParser, and there is a stack consumption problem caused by recursive stack frames: HandleCompactMap, HandleMap, HandleFlowSequence, HandleSequence, HandleNode. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a cpp file.

Affected products

• Yaml-Cpp Project Yaml-Cpp: version 0.6.2 only

Published 2019-01-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.