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CVE-2023-2798

Denial of service in HtmlUnit

Published: May 25, 2023Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-400
7.5HIGH
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.9%
Top 43.5%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
Not available

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.

No summary for this CVE yet.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-400CWE-787

Affected Products

Maven
package-ecosystem
org.htmlunit:htmlunit
OSS Libraries
htmlunit
oss-project
htmlunitLibrary
OSS Libraries / generic-library
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Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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Attack Graph

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MITRE ATT&CK

3 techniques
Impact
Initial Access
Privilege Escalation
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References

https://github.com/HtmlUnit/htmlunit/commit/940dc7fd
github.com
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=54613
bugs.chromium.org
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2798
nvd.nist.gov
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