CVE-2022-28366

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    CVE-2022-28366

    Published: 21 Apr 2022Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Certain Neko-related HTML parsers allow a denial of service via crafted Processing Instruction (PI) input that causes excessive heap memory consumption. In particular, this issue exists in HtmlUnit-Neko through 2.26, and is fixed in 2.27. This issue also exists in CyberNeko HTML through 1.9.22 (also affecting OWASP AntiSamy before 1.6.6), but 1.9.22 is the last version of CyberNeko HTML. NOTE: this may be related to CVE-2022-24839.

    References: https://github.com/nahsra/antisamy/releases/tag/v1.6.6, https://search.maven.org/artifact/net.sourceforge.htmlunit/neko-htmlunit, https://sourceforge.net/projects/htmlunit/files/htmlunit/2.27/, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/28xxx/CVE-2022-28366.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-28366

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -7421f043d18741c4e36bf7c0ce8b471122dbf18a

    Affected versions

    v1.6.5
    v1.6.4
    v1.6.2
    v1.6.1
    v1.6.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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