CVE-2022-28366

high

Description

Certain Neko-related HTML parsers allow a denial of service via crafted Processing Instruction (PI) input that causes excessive heap memory consumption. In particular, this issue exists in HtmlUnit-Neko through 2.26, and is fixed in 2.27. This issue also exists in CyberNeko HTML through 1.9.22 (also affecting OWASP AntiSamy before 1.6.6), but 1.9.22 is the last version of CyberNeko HTML. NOTE: this may be related to CVE-2022-24839.

References

https://sourceforge.net/projects/htmlunit/files/htmlunit/2.27/

https://search.maven.org/artifact/net.sourceforge.htmlunit/neko-htmlunit

https://github.com/nahsra/antisamy/releases/tag/v1.6.6

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-04-21

Updated: 2023-12-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High