CVE-2023-2798

Denial of service in HtmlUnit

Published May 25, 2023 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-1621 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-rc44-5cmh-879m Unrestricted recursion in htmlunit
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Google
Published
Updated
Aug 2, 2024, 6:33 AM
Reserved
May 18, 2023, 2:33 PM
Status
Modified
Published
May 25, 2023, 2:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 5:53 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
May 25, 2023, 12:00 AM