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CVE-2023-2798

Denial of service in HtmlUnit

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: May 25, 2023 at 01:54 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 05:53 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorHtmlUnit

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.9%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

HtmlUnit· Htmlunitmaven
95%
v < 2.70.0
Affected range stops below 2.70.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (2)

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

CVSS

7.5HIGHGoogle
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-400CWE-787

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