PT-2023-21466 · Htmlunit · Htmlunit

Oss-Fuzz · CVE-2023-2798 · Published 2023-05-25 · Updated 2023-12-07

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions htmlunit versions prior to 2.70.0

Description The issue allows an attacker to cause a denial of service attack by supplying content that causes htmlunit to crash due to a stack overflow when running on user-supplied web pages. This can happen when htmlunit is used to browse untrusted webpages.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.70.0, update to version 2.70.0 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of htmlunit for browsing untrusted web pages until the update is applied.

Exploit

Fix

Memory Corruption

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-2798

GHSA-RC44-5CMH-879M

Affected Products

Htmlunit

References · 13

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/2xxx/CVE-2023-2798.json · Exploit
• https://github.com/HtmlUnit/htmlunit/commit/940dc7fd · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2798 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-2798 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-2798 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2023-2798 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-rc44-5cmh-879m · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-2798 · Security Note
• https://github.com/HtmlUnit/htmlunit · Note
• https://github.com/HtmlUnit/htmlunit/releases/tag/2.70.0 · Note
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=54613 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/62762 · Telegram Post
• https://github.com/HtmlUnit · Note