{"cve":"CVE-2023-2798","nvd":{"published":"2023-05-25T14:15:10.320","modified":"2026-06-17T05:53:27.993","status":"Modified","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_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":7.5},"cwes":["CWE-787","CWE-400"],"references":["https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=54613","https://github.com/HtmlUnit/htmlunit/commit/940dc7fd","https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=54613","https://github.com/HtmlUnit/htmlunit/commit/940dc7fd"],"products":["htmlunit:htmlunit"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:38:24.161619714+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2023-2798","score":0.00907,"percentile":0.599,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-rc44-5cmh-879m","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-rc44-5cmh-879m","summary":"Unrestricted recursion in htmlunit","modified":"2023-11-08T04:12:08.188072Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Maven","name":"org.htmlunit:htmlunit","purl":"pkg:maven/org.htmlunit/htmlunit","ranges":["<2.70.0"],"fixed":["2.70.0"]}]}],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}