// For flags

CVE-2023-2798

Denial of service in HtmlUnit

Severity Score

7.5
*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

0
*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

-
*KEV

Decision

-
*SSVC
Descriptions

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.

A flaw was found in HtmlUnit. This issue may allow a malicious user to supply content to htmlUnit, which could cause a crash by stack overflow, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS).

*Credits: OSS-Fuzz
CVSS Scores
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
  • Decision:-
Exploitation
-
Automatable
-
Tech. Impact
-
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
  • 2023-05-18 CVE Reserved
  • 2023-05-25 CVE Published
  • 2024-06-26 EPSS Updated
  • 2024-08-02 CVE Updated
  • ---------- Exploited in Wild
  • ---------- KEV Due Date
  • ---------- First Exploit
CWE
  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write
CAPEC
  • CAPEC-469: HTTP DoS
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
Vendor Product Version Other Status
Vendor Product Version Other Status <-- --> Vendor Product Version Other Status
Htmlunit
Search vendor "Htmlunit"
 Htmlunit
Search vendor "Htmlunit" for product "Htmlunit"
 < 2.70.0
Search vendor "Htmlunit" for product "Htmlunit" and version " < 2.70.0"
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Affected