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CVE-2022-28366

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-28366 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting certain Neko-related HTML parsers, including HtmlUnit-Neko (fixed in 2.27) and CyberNeko HTML (up to 1.9.22), which also impacts OWASP AntiSamy before 1.6.6. This vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), allows an unauthenticated attacker to cause excessive heap memory consumption and a denial of service through crafted Processing Instruction (PI) input. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion, despite some media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.9.22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cyberneko_html_project:cyberneko_html:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 2.27CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:htmlunit:htmlunit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.6.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:antisamy_project:antisamy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.10%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0210 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: net.sourceforge.htmlunit:neko-htmlunitFixed in: 2.27

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-g9hh-vvx3-v37vhigh

Denial of service in HtmlUnit-Neko

Apr 23, 2022

References

github.com / nahsra/antisamy/releases/tag/v1.6.6
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
search.maven.org / artifact/net.sourceforge.htmlunit/neko-htmlunit
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
sourceforge.net / projects/htmlunit/files/htmlunit/2.27
Release NotesThird Party Advisory