CVE-2019-6292

6.5 mediumEPSS 1.9%

Medium (6.5) in yaml-cpp project yaml-cpp. EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in singledocparser.cpp in yaml-cpp (aka LibYaml-C++) 0.6.2. Stack Exhaustion occurs in YAML::SingleDocParser, and there is a stack consumption problem caused by recursive stack frames: HandleCompactMap, HandleMap, HandleFlowSequence, HandleSequence, HandleNode. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a cpp file.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

6.5 medium

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 79% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-674
Published: 2019-01-15
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

yaml-cpp_project:yaml-cpp

References

https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp/issues/657
https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp/issues/657

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