CVE-2022-29546: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

April 25, 2022 (updated May 4, 2022)

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.

References

github.com/HtmlUnit/htmlunit-neko/security/advisories/GHSA-6jmm-mp6w-4rrg
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-29546

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