Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2025-2813
Advisory Release Date: 2025-03-26 19:24 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-04-01 16:23 Pacific
jsoup is a Java library for working with HTML. Those using jsoup versions prior to 1.14.2 to parse untrusted HTML or XML may be vulnerable to DOS attacks. If the parser is run on user supplied input, an attacker may supply content that causes the parser to get stuck (loop indefinitely until cancelled), to complete more slowly than usual, or to throw an unexpected exception. This effect may support a denial of service attack. The issue is patched in version 1.14.2. There are a few available workarounds. Users may rate limit input parsing, limit the size of inputs based on system resources, and/or implement thread watchdogs to cap and timeout parse runtimes. (CVE-2021-37714)
Affected Packages:
jsoup
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update jsoup to update your system.
noarch:
jsoup-1.16.1-4.amzn2.0.1.noarch
jsoup-javadoc-1.16.1-4.amzn2.0.1.noarch
src:
jsoup-1.16.1-4.amzn2.0.1.src