CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-2525

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2014-03-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-03-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

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 configurations

• pyyaml libyaml (<= 0.1.5) • pyyaml libyaml 0.0.1 • pyyaml libyaml 0.1.1 • pyyaml libyaml 0.1.2 • pyyaml libyaml 0.1.3 • pyyaml libyaml 0.1.4 • opensuse leap 42.1 • opensuse opensuse 13.1 • opensuse opensuse 13.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References