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CVE-2023-2798

Those using HtmlUnit to browse untrusted webpages may be vulnerable to Denial of service attacks (DoS). If HtmlUnit is r

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.

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 0.00073
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  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Weakness Classification

CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-787Out-of-bounds Write
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Affected Products & Versions

1
htmlunit< 2.70.0
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Affected Packages

1
Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
Maven org.htmlunit:htmlunit HIGH fixed in 2.70.0
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Scoring & Timeline

7.5
HIGH · CVSS v3.1 · cve-coordination@google.com
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD25 May 2023 · 02:15 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Vendor Advisories

2
rhsaRHSA-2023:4627Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2023:3814Moderate
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References & Sources

2
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=54613Mailing List
https://github.com/HtmlUnit/htmlunit/commit/940dc7fdPatch
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