CVE-2023-2798

Published May 25, 2023

Last updated a year ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve-coordination@google.com
NVD status: Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 7.5
Impact score: 3.6
Exploitability score: 3.9
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity: HIGH

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-787
cve-coordination@google.com: CWE-400

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:htmlunit:htmlunit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "4C8AEB42-E6DB-4218-84F7-6C061E486001",
            "versionEndExcluding": "2.70.0"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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