Advisory record · GHSA-65r4-943x-97jj

jsoup XmlTreeBuilder vulnerable to memory exhaustion through deeply nested namespace declarations

CVSS 8.7 HighEPSS 0.0053 · 44th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 20 Aug 2026, 18:30 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
org.jsoup:jsoupMaven<1.23.21.23.2
Identifiers
GHSA-65r4-943x-97jj · CVE-2026-75140
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-770
Published
20 Aug 2026
Updated
5 Oct 2026

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.

Written 2 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
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

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:16 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:16 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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