CVE-2023-49093

HtmlUnit vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) via XSTL

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Dec 4, 2023
Updated: Oct 10, 2024
Reserved: Nov 21, 2023

Description

HtmlUnit is a GUI-less browser for Java programs. HtmlUnit is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) via XSTL, when browsing the attacker’s webpage. This vulnerability has been patched in version 3.9.0

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
htmlunitHtmlUnit	< 3.9.0Affected

References

https://github.com/HtmlUnit/htmlunit/security/advisories/GHSA-37vq-hr2f-g7h7
https://www.htmlunit.org/changes-report.html#a3.9.0

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