Atlassian JIRA: CVE-2022-24839: DoS (Denial of Service) net.sourceforge.nekohtml:nekohtml Dependency in Jira Software Data Center and Server

This High severity net.sourceforge.nekohtml:nekohtml Dependency vulnerability was introduced in versions 9.0.0, 9.1.0, 9.2.0, 9.3.0, 9.4.0, 9.5.0, 9.6.0, 9.7.0, 9.8.0, and 9.9.0 of Jira Software Data Center and Server.
This net.sourceforge.nekohtml:nekohtml 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 Software 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:
 
|Affected versions|Fixed versions|
|9.12.0 to 9.12.4|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS|
|9.11.0 to 9.11.3|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS|
|9.10.0 to 9.10.2|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS|
|9.9.0 to 9.9.2|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS|
|9.8.0 to 9.8.2|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS|
|9.7.0 to 9.7.2|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS|
|9.6.0|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS|
|9.5.0 to 9.5.1|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS|
|9.4.0 to 9.4.17 LTS|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS or 9.4.18 LTS|
|9.3.0 to 9.3.3|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS or 9.4.18 LTS|
|9.2.0 to 9.2.1|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS or 9.4.18 LTS|
|9.1.0 to 9.1.1|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS or 9.4.18 LTS|
|9.0.0|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS or 9.4.18 LTS|
|Any earlier versions|9.14.1 recommended or 9.14.0 or 9.12.5 LTS or 9.4.18 LTS|

See the release notes (https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/download-archives). You can download the latest version of Jira Software Data Center and Server from the download center (https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/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 `\greater than equal 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.