Vulnerability · Published May 25, 2023 · Assigned by Google

CVE-2023-2798Denial of service in HtmlUnit

High 7.5

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A high-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in htmlunit. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.9% (higher than 60% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.5High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.9%top 39.9% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Maven	org.htmlunit:htmlunit	2.70.0	GHSA-rc44-5cmh-879m

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
	htmlunit	0 – before 2.70.0

Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Affected packages & fixed versions

Affected products (as reported)

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