7.5

CVE-2023-2798: htmlunit Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2023-2798GHSA-rc44-5cmh-879m
Published 25-05-2023Last modified 02-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-2798 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in htmlunit. EPSS estimates a 0.91% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.91%
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. 25-05-2023
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 02-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.91%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

59%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.91% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.91%

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

Affected systems

Ubuntu2 products
  • htmlunitAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • jenkins-htmlunit-core-jsAll versions (No fix recorded)
Htmlunit1 product
Org.htmlunit1 product
  • htmlunit< 2.70.0

3 vendors · 4 products

References

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