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SCA: security update for org.htmlunit:htmlunit (GHSA-rc44-5cmh-879m)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 418650

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2023-2798)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rc44-5cmh-879m

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 418650

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-2798

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/25/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/25/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-2798