GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io

GHSA-39vw-qp34-rmwf Uncontrolled recursion leads to abort in deserialization

MEDIUM Published 2021-08-25 Modified 2023-06-13 Official page ↗
Ecosystem
crates.io
Packages
serde_yaml
Severity
Moderate
Weaknesses
CWE-674
Reviewed
2021-08-06

Affected packages

• crates.io serde_yaml: >= 0.6.0-rc1, < 0.8.4 → fixed in 0.8.4

Description

Affected versions of this crate did not properly check for recursion while deserializing aliases. This allows an attacker to make a YAML file with an alias referring to itself causing an abort. The flaw was corrected by checking the recursion depth.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion weakness

References