CVE-2022-38749: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Using snakeYAML to parse untrusted YAML files may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS). If the parser is running on user supplied input, an attacker may supply content that causes the parser to crash by stackoverflow.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Snakeyaml Project Snakeyaml: before 1.31 (fixed in 1.31)

Published 2022-09-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.