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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.
Basic information
Type
reviewed
Severity
high Advisory on GitHub
Open advisory ↗ Repository advisory
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Source code
Browse source ↗ Published (advisory)
2023-05-25 15:30:17 UTC
Updated
2023-11-07 05:04:38 UTC
GitHub reviewed
2023-05-25 17:02:56 UTC
NVD published
2023-05-25
EPSS Score
Score
Percentile
0.09%
25.64%
CVSS Scores
Base score
Version
Severity
Vector
7.5
3.1
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
CWEs
CWE id
Name
CWE-400
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-787
Out-of-bounds Write
Affected packages (1)
Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.
Ecosystem
Package
Vulnerable range
First patched
Vulnerable functions
maven
org.htmlunit:htmlunit < 2.70.0
2.70.0
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