7.5

CVE-2022-29546: htmlunit

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighModified
AliasesGHSA-6jmm-mp6w-4rrg
Published 25-04-2022Last modified 03-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-29546 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in htmlunit. EPSS estimates a 1.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.23%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 25-04-2022
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

HtmlUnit NekoHtml Parser before 2.61.0 suffers from a denial of service vulnerability. Crafted input associated with the parsing of Processing Instruction (PI) data leads to heap memory consumption. This is similar to CVE-2022-28366 but affects a much later version of the product.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.23%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

69%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.23% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
1.23%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Htmlunit1 product
Net.sourceforge.htmlunit1 product
  • neko-htmlunit< 2.61.0

2 vendors · 2 products

References

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