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OutOfMemory Exception by specifically crafted processing instruction

Moderate
rbri published GHSA-6jmm-mp6w-4rrg Apr 24, 2022

Package

maven neko-htmlunit-2.60.0.jar (Maven)

Affected versions

< 2.61.0

Patched versions

None

Description

Impact

NekoHtml Parser suffers from a denial of service vulnerability on versions 2.60.0 and below. A specifically crafted input regarding the parsing of processing instructions leads to heap memory consumption. Please update to version 2.61.0.

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Severity

Moderate

CVE ID

CVE-2022-29546

Weaknesses

No CWEs