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CVE-2022-29546

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Description

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.

Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
7.5 (v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Modified
Source identifier
Published
2022-04-25 03:15:07.840000
Last modified
2026-11-02 22:17:13.707000
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