SCA: security update for org.nokogiri:nekohtml (GHSA-9849-p7jc-9rmv)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433965

Description

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

- org.cyberneko.html is an html parser written in Java. The fork of `org.cyberneko.html` used by Nokogiri
(Rubygem) raises a `java.lang.OutOfMemoryError` exception when parsing ill-formed HTML markup. Users are
advised to upgrade to `>= 1.9.22.noko2`. Note: The upstream library `org.cyberneko.html` is no longer
maintained. Nokogiri uses its own fork of this library located at
https://github.com/sparklemotion/nekohtml and this CVE applies only to that fork. Other forks of nekohtml
may have a similar vulnerability. (CVE-2022-24839)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9849-p7jc-9rmv

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 433965

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.7

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-2022-24839

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: 6/22/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/11/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-24839

cwe: CWE-400