Machine-written summary
Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.
jsoup versions before 1.23.2 have an uncontrolled resource consumption flaw in XmlTreeBuilder. A remote attacker can supply a deeply nested XML document with uniquely namespaced elements, exhausting JVM heap memory and terminating the application with an OutOfMemoryError. Upgrade to jsoup 1.23.2.
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Severity and exploitation
| Score | Rating | CVSS | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.7 | High | 4.0 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | CNA (VulnCheck) |
- CISA KEV Not listed.
- EPSS 0.0053, the 44th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Timeline
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:16 UTC First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:16 UTC Confirmed by OSV
Sources
- GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-65r4-943x-97jj
- OSV: GHSA-65r4-943x-97jj
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-75140
- github.com/jhy/jsoup/pull/2556
- github.com/jhy/jsoup/commit/862ba2f1d48ee95609183dbcfc848c9fd7afc76a
- github.com/jhy/jsoup
- github.com/jhy/jsoup/releases/tag/jsoup-1.23.2
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/jsoup-uncontrolled-resource-consumption-in-xmltreebuilder