CVE-2023-2798

Denial of service in HtmlUnit

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: May 25, 2023
Updated: Aug 2, 2024
Reserved: May 18, 2023

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	Google

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Product	Versions
htmlunit	before 2.70.0Affected

References

https://github.com/HtmlUnit/htmlunit/commit/940dc7fd
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=54613

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