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CVE-2023-2798 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.5 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CNA: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.5 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=54613	CVE	Mailing List
https://github.com/HtmlUnit/htmlunit/commit/940dc7fd	CVE	Patch
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=54613	[email protected]	Mailing List
https://github.com/HtmlUnit/htmlunit/commit/940dc7fd	[email protected]	Patch

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-787	Out-of-bounds Write	[email protected]
CWE-400	Uncontrolled Resource Consumption	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
htmlunit htmlunit	< 2.70.0
CPE cpe:2.3:a:htmlunit:htmlunit:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

5 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Dec 7, 2023	CPE Deprecation Remap	[email protected]
Jun 1, 2023	Initial Analysis	[email protected]