What is CVE-2023-49555?

CVE-2023-49555 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Yasm Project, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-01-03.

How severe is CVE-2023-49555?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Yasm Project

CVE-2023-49555

An issue in YASM 1.3.0.86.g9def allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the expand_smacro function in the modules/preprocs/nasm/nasm-pp.c component.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.004 (30.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Yasm_project Yasm — versions 1.3.0.86.g9def
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-49555?: CVE-2023-49555 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Yasm Project, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-01-03.
How severe is CVE-2023-49555?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.