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2 actionable advisories, newest first. Withdrawn advisories and news are excluded. Coverage is partial.

  1. Critical, CVSS 9.8MavenPublished

    HtmlUnit vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) via XSTL

    CVE-2023-49093 · GHSA-37vq-hr2f-g7h7

    Affected
    • Maven org.htmlunit:htmlunit < 3.9.0
    Fixed in
    3.9.0· Vendor fix available
    Issue
    HtmlUnit 3.8.0 are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) via XSTL, when browsing the attacker’s webpage Details Vulnerability code location: org.htmlunit.activex.javascript.msxml.XSLProcessor#transform(org.htmlunit.activex.javascript.msxml.XMLDOMNode) The reason for the vulnerability is that it was not enabled FEATURESECUREPROCESSING for the XSLT processor PoC pom.xml: code: test.html: Impact Remote Code Execution

    Recommended action: Upgrade to 3.9.0 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.

    Sources:github.comSource checked Evidence →
  2. High, CVSS 7.5MavenPublished

    Unrestricted recursion in htmlunit

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

    Affected
    • Maven org.htmlunit:htmlunit < 2.70.0
    Fixed in
    2.70.0· Vendor fix available
    Issue
    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.

    Recommended action: Upgrade to 2.70.0 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.

    Sources:github.comSource checked Evidence →