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SCA: security update for org.jsoup:jsoup (GHSA-m72m-mhq2-9p6c)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 416802

Description

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

 - jsoup is a Java library for working with HTML. Those using jsoup versions prior to 1.14.2 to parse
 untrusted HTML or XML may be vulnerable to DOS attacks. If the parser is run on user supplied input, an
 attacker may supply content that causes the parser to get stuck (loop indefinitely until cancelled), to
 complete more slowly than usual, or to throw an unexpected exception. This effect may support a denial of
 service attack. The issue is patched in version 1.14.2. There are a few available workarounds. Users may
 rate limit input parsing, limit the size of inputs based on system resources, and/or implement thread
 watchdogs to cap and timeout parse runtimes. (CVE-2021-37714)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m72m-mhq2-9p6c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 416802

Version: Revision 1.5

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-2021-37714

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: 8/23/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/18/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-37714