DoS (Denial of Service) net.sourceforge.nekohtml:nekohtml Dependency in Jira Software Data Center and Server

This High severity net.sourceforge.nekohtml:nekohtml Dependency vulnerability was introduced in versions 9.0.0, 9.1.0, 9.2.0, 9.3.0, 9.4.0, 9.5.0, 9.6.0, 9.7.0, 9.8.0, and 9.9.0 of Jira Software Data Center and Server.

This net.sourceforge.nekohtml:nekohtml Dependency vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 7.5 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H allows an unauthenticated attacker to expose assets in your environment susceptible to exploitation which has no impact to confidentiality, no impact to integrity, high impact to availability, and requires no user interaction.

Atlassian recommends that Jira Software Data Center and Server customers upgrade to latest version, if you are unable to do so, upgrade your instance to one of the specified supported fixed versions:

||Affected versions||Fixed versions||
|9.12.0 to 9.12.4 LTS|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS|
|9.11.0 to 9.11.3|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS|
|9.10.0 to 9.10.2|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS|
|9.9.0 to 9.9.2|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS|
|9.8.0 to 9.8.2|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS|
|9.7.0 to 9.7.2|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS|
|9.6.0|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS|
|9.5.0 to 9.5.1|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS|
|9.4.0 to 9.4.17 LTS|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS or 9.4.18 LTS|
|9.3.0 to 9.3.3|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS or 9.4.18 LTS|
|9.2.0 to 9.2.1|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS or 9.4.18 LTS|
|9.1.0 to 9.1.1|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS or 9.4.18 LTS|
|9.0.0|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS or 9.4.18 LTS|
|Any earlier versions|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS or 9.4.18 LTS|

See the release notes ([https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/download-archives]). You can download the latest version of Jira Software Data Center and Server from the download center ([https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/download-archives]).

The National Vulnerability Database provides the following description for this vulnerability: 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.