Out-of-Bounds Affecting cpan-authors/YAML-Syck package, versions [,1.36)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CPANAUTHORSYAMLSYCK-13609991
  • published17 Oct 2025
  • disclosed16 Oct 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Oct 2025

NewCVE-2025-11683  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade cpan-authors/YAML-Syck to version 1.36 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds due to missing null terminators in token.c. An attacker can access sensitive information from adjacent variables by crafting complex YAML files containing a hash of all keys with empty values.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1