CVE-2026-33532 — Uncontrolled Recursion in Yaml
Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 83.36%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 26
Description
`yaml` is a YAML parser and serialiser for JavaScript. Parsing a YAML document with a version of `yaml` on the 1.x branch prior to 1.10.3 or on the 2.x branch prior to 2.8.3 may throw a RangeError due to a stack overflow. The node resolution/composition phase uses recursive function calls without a depth bound. An attacker who can supply YAML for parsing can trigger a `RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded` with a small payload (~2–10 KB). The `RangeError` is not a `YAMLParseError`, so ap…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 1.4