YAML injection via unescaped newlines in ymlr document comments
Published Jul 31, 2026
2.1
LOWCVSS 4.0
EPSS 0.20%
Description
Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences vulnerability in ufirstgroup ymlr (Elixir.Ymlr module) allows attackers to inject arbitrary content into generated YAML documents through document comments. Ymlr.document!/2 interpolates each caller-supplied comment string into the output behind a single # prefix without validating it or escaping line breaks. Because a YAML comment is terminated by a line break, the first carriage return or line feed in the comment string ends the comment context and everything after it is emitted at column 0 of the document body.
An attacker who controls text that the host application passes as a comment can forge top-level mapping keys, override values the application itself set, and emit --- or ... markers that split the output into additional documents. Downstream consumers of the generated YAML, such as configuration loaders, deployment manifests, CI pipelines and data importers, parse the injected content as legitimate data. The same clause backs Ymlr.document/2, Ymlr.documents!/2 and Ymlr.documents/2, so every document encoding entry point is affected.
This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/ymlr.ex and program routines 'Elixir.Ymlr':document!/2, 'Elixir.Ymlr':documents!/2.
This issue affects ymlr from 0.0.1 before 5.1.6.
Affected products
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- Version 0.0.1StatusaffectedConstraints<5.1.6
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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
| Vendor | Product | Default status | Versions | ||||||
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| Ufirstgroup | Ymlr | unaffected |
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| Ufirstgroup | Ymlr | unaffected |
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Remediation
Vendor solution
Split any untrusted comment string on line breaks and pass the resulting list as the comment element of the {comment, data} tuple. Ymlr prefixes every list element with its own # marker, so no line can leave the comment context. Alternatively, reject comment strings that contain carriage return or line feed characters, or keep untrusted text out of comments entirely and place it in the encoded data instead, where the encoder quotes it.
References (6)
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-65636.html related
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-51537 Advisory
- https://github.com/ufirstgroup/ymlr/commit/42a0bf8b2af44b0e7c42d0b7044c8588ca5866dc patch
- https://github.com/ufirstgroup/ymlr/commit/7e53061fb2809b787fba0373c46b78e253c83adc patch
- https://github.com/ufirstgroup/ymlr/security/advisories/GHSA-p8qx-7cp9-v6c9 vendor-advisoryrelated
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-65636 related
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