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SCA: security update for net.sourceforge.htmlunit:neko-htmlunit (GHSA-g9hh-vvx3-v37v)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 415033

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2022-28366)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g9hh-vvx3-v37v

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 415033

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-28366

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/23/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/21/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-28366