The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5471 advisory.

    A security vulnerability has been discovered in libhtmlcleaner-java, a Java HTML parser library. An     attacker was able to cause a denial of service (StackOverflowError) if the parser runs on user supplied     input with deeply nested HTML elements. This update introduces a new nesting depth limit which can be     overridden in cleaner properties. For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed     in version 2.24-1+deb11u1. For the stable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in version     2.26-1+deb12u1. We recommend that you upgrade your libhtmlcleaner-java packages. For the detailed security     status of libhtmlcleaner-java please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-     tracker.debian.org/tracker/libhtmlcleaner-java

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Debian DSA-5471-1 : libhtmlcleaner-java - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 179424

Version 1.1

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Version 1.1 Jan 24, 2025, 11:52 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202501242352
Version 1.0 Aug 8, 2023, 7:59 AM New Plugin Feed: 202308080759