Resource exhaustion in yarn - CVE-2025-8262

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Resource exhaustion in yarn - CVE-2025-8262

Published: September 18, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU115829
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-8262
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote user can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

yarn
WatsonX BI Assistant
Fedora
yarnpkg

How to mitigate CVE-2025-8262

Install updates from vendor's website.

yarn - update to 1.22.22
WatsonX BI Assistant - update to 5.2.1
yarnpkg - addressed in versions 1.22.22-11.el9, 1.22.22-11.el10_1, 1.22.22-11.fc41, 1.22.22-11.fc42

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