htmlunit/htmlunit · Security
Unrestricted recursion in htmlunit
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-rc44-5cmh-879m
- CVE ID
- CVE-2023-2798
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS: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.
CWEs
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
- CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write