GHSA-m72m-mhq2-9p6c

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    GHSA-m72m-mhq2-9p6c

    Published: 23 Aug 2021Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026

    Summary: Uncaught Exception in jsoup

    Details: ### Impact _What kind of vulnerability is it? Who is impacted?_ Those using jsoup to parse untrusted HTML or XML may be vulnerable to DOS attacks. If the parser is run on user supplied input, an attacker may supply content that causes the parser to get stuck (loop indefinitely until cancelled), to complete more slowly than usual, or to throw an unexpected exception. This effect may support a denial of service attack. ### Patches _Has the problem been patched? What versions should users upgrade to?_ Users should upgrade to jsoup 1.14.2 ### Workarounds _Is there a way for users to fix or remediate the vulnerability without upgrading?_ Users may rate limit input parsing. Users should limit the size of inputs based on system resources. Users should implement thread watchdogs to cap and timeout parse runtimes.

    References: https://github.com/jhy/jsoup/security/advisories/GHSA-m72m-mhq2-9p6c, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-37714, https://github.com/jhy/jsoup, https://jsoup.org/news/release-1.14.1, https://jsoup.org/news/release-1.14.2, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r215009dbf7467a9f6506d0c0024cb36cad30071010e62c9352cfaaf0@%3Cissues.maven.apache.org%3E, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r377b93d79817ce649e9e68b3456e6f499747ef1643fa987b342e082e@%3Cissues.maven.apache.org%3E, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3d71f18adb78e50f626dde689161ca63d3b7491bd9718fcddfaecba7@%3Cissues.maven.apache.org%3E, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r50e9c9466c592ca9d707a5dea549524d19e3287da08d8392f643960e@%3Cissues.maven.apache.org%3E, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r685c5235235ad0c26e86d0ee987fb802c9675de6081dbf0516464e0b@%3Cnotifications.james.apache.org%3E, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r97404676a5cf591988faedb887d64e278f522adcaa823d89ca69defe@%3Cnotifications.james.apache.org%3E, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc3354080fc67fb50b45b3c2d12dc4ca2a3c1c78dad3d3ba012c038aa@%3Cnotifications.james.apache.org%3E, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220210-0022, https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html, https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html, https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: org.jsoup:jsoup

    Purl: pkg:maven/org.jsoup/jsoup

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.14.2

    Affected versions

    0.2.1b
    0.2.2

    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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