CVE-2023-2798

Unrestricted recursion in htmlunit in maven/org.htmlunit/htmlunit

Identifiers

GHSA-rc44-5cmh-879m, CVE-2023-2798

Package Slug

maven/org.htmlunit/htmlunit

Vulnerability

Unrestricted recursion in htmlunit

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.

Affected Versions

All versions before 2.70.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.70.0 or above.

Last Modified

2023-05-26

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