High severity · published May 25, 2023
CVE-2023-2798
Those using HtmlUnit to browse untrusted webpages may be vulnerable to Denial of service attacks (DoS)
7.5
CVSS
0.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Those using HtmlUnit to browse untrusted webpages may be vulnerable to Denial of service attacks (DoS). If HtmlUnit is running on user supplied web pages, an attacker may supply content that causes HtmlUnit to crash by a stack overflow. This effect may support a denial of service attack.This issue affects htmlunit before 2.70.0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.9% · higher than 60% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
HT
Htmlunit · Htmlunit
before 2.70.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2798
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-2798
Mailing List
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=54613
Patch
https://github.com/HtmlUnit/htmlunit/commit/940dc7fd
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