GHSA-rpch-cqj9-h65rHighCVSS 7.8

High severity vulnerability that affects YamlDotNet and YamlDotNet.Signed

Published
October 16, 2018
Last Modified
January 9, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

YamlDotNet version 4.3.2 and earlier contains a Insecure Direct Object Reference vulnerability in The default behavior of Deserializer.Deserialize() will deserialize user-controlled types in the line "currentType = Type.GetType(nodeEvent.Tag.Substring(1), throwOnError: false);" and blindly instantiates them. that can result in Code execution in the context of the running process. This attack appear to be exploitable via Victim must parse a specially-crafted YAML file. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 5.0.0.

🎯 Affected products2

  • nuget/YamlDotNet:<= 4.3.2
  • nuget/YamlDotNet.Signed:<= 4.3.2

🔗 References (4)