Our Java Fuzzer Jazzer has found more than 19 Bugs (CVE-2021-37714) in the open-source library of jsoup. Eight of them might have a critical impact on the availability of web applications using jsoup. Users should update to jsoup 1.14.2 quickly, to avoid downtime!
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What Is jsoup?
Jsoup is a popular Java library designed to parse, extract, and manipulate data stored in HTML documents. In addition, it can also be used to parse and build XML documents.
Which Vulnerabilities Were Found?
Applications that use jsoup to parse untrusted HTML or XML may be vulnerable to Denial of Service 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.
Coverage-Guided Fuzzing for Java
My team and I used our coverage-guided, in-process fuzzer for the JVM (Jazzer), to fuzz the application. Jazzer is a highly useful Java testing tool that can find bugs in fuzz targets that parse complex and nested structures such as HTML, XML, or JSON.
Or watch full video: Fuzzing Java code (JSoup) using Jazzer fuzzer.
Continuous Fuzzing Through OSS-Fuzz Integration
Developers from Code Intelligence, integrated jsoup into the OSS-Fuzz platform which made continuous fuzzing of jsoup possible. More than 165 Bugs were already found due to the integration of Jazzer into OSS-Fuzz.