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SCA: security update for net.sourceforge.htmlunit:neko-htmlunit (GHSA-6jmm-mp6w-4rrg)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 411496

Description

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

 - HtmlUnit NekoHtml Parser before 2.61.0 suffers from a denial of service vulnerability. Crafted input
 associated with the parsing of Processing Instruction (PI) data leads to heap memory consumption. This is
 similar to CVE-2022-28366 but affects a much later version of the product. (CVE-2022-29546)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6jmm-mp6w-4rrg

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 411496

Version: Revision 1.6

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-2022-29546

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: 4/26/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/25/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-29546

cwe: CWE-400