Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package jsoup-javadoc (opens in a new tab)

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Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-JSOUPJAVADOC-1571773
published29 Aug 2021
disclosed18 Aug 2021

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Introduced: 18 Aug 2021

CVE-2021-37714 (opens in a new tab) CWE-400 (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jsoup-javadoc package and not the jsoup-javadoc package as distributed by RHEL.

jsoup is a Java library for working with HTML. Those using jsoup versions prior to 1.14.2 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. The issue is patched in version 1.14.2. There are a few available workarounds. Users may rate limit input parsing, limit the size of inputs based on system resources, and/or implement thread watchdogs to cap and timeout parse runtimes.