VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-2798

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability0.91%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-05-25
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • cve-coordination@google.com: CWE-400
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-787

Primary references