CVE-2023-2798

HIGH

HtmlUnit < 2.70.0 - Denial of Service via Stack Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (2)

Core 2

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0091
EPSS Percentile 55.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-400 CWE-787
Status published
Products (2)
htmlunit/htmlunit < 2.70.0
org.htmlunit/htmlunit 0 - 2.70.0Maven
Published May 25, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026