YAML versions before 1.30 for Perl allow a loaded document to trigger the DESTROY method of arbitrary classes.
A perl/hash:Class tag blesses a hash into the class it names. The document supplies the object's fields, and Perl calls DESTROY when it goes out of scope.
What DESTROY does depends on the classes the process has loaded. With File::Temp::Dir from core Perl, it can delete a directory tree the document names.
A perl/hash:Class tag blesses a hash into the class it names. The document supplies the object's fields, and Perl calls DESTROY when it goes out of scope.
What DESTROY does depends on the classes the process has loaded. With File::Temp::Dir from core Perl, it can delete a directory tree the document names.
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Solution
Upgrade to YAML 1.30 or later.
Workaround
For deployments that cannot upgrade to YAML 1.30, set $YAML::LoadBlessed = 0 before loading untrusted input. The option exists from YAML 1.25.
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Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:00:00 +0000
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| Description | YAML versions before 1.30 for Perl allow a loaded document to trigger the DESTROY method of arbitrary classes. A perl/hash:Class tag blesses a hash into the class it names. The document supplies the object's fields, and Perl calls DESTROY when it goes out of scope. What DESTROY does depends on the classes the process has loaded. With File::Temp::Dir from core Perl, it can delete a directory tree the document names. | |
| Title | YAML versions before 1.30 for Perl allow a loaded document to trigger the DESTROY method of arbitrary classes | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-470 CWE-502 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: CPANSec
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-05T06:49:17.583Z
Reserved: 2026-09-21T21:18:28.499Z
Link: CVE-2017-20285
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-05T07:16:29.017
Modified: 2026-10-05T07:16:29.017
Link: CVE-2017-20285
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Updated: 2026-10-05T08:30:04Z