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

This High severity Third-Party Dependency vulnerability was introduced in versions 4.20.0, 5.4.0, 5.5.0, 5.6.0, 5.7.0, 5.8.0, 5.9.0, 5.10.0, and 5.11.0 of Jira Service Management Data Center and Server.

This Third-Party 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 Service Management 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:

• Jira Service Management Data Center and Server 4.20: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 4.20.28

See the release notes ([https://confluence.atlassian.com/servicemanagement/jira-service-management-release-notes-780083086.html]). You can download the latest version of Jira Service Management Data Center and Server from the download center ([https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/service-management/download-archives]).

The National Vulnerability Database provides the following description for this vulnerability: org.cyberneko.html is an html parser written in Java. The fork of org.cyberneko.html used by Nokogiri (Rubygem) raises a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError exception when parsing ill-formed HTML markup. Users are advised to upgrade to >= 1.9.22.noko2. Note: The upstream library org.cyberneko.html is no longer maintained. Nokogiri uses its own fork of this library located at [https://github.com/sparklemotion/nekohtml] and this CVE applies only to that fork. Other forks of nekohtml may have a similar vulnerability.