Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting net.sourceforge.htmlunit:htmlunit package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    2.87% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-NETSOURCEFORGEHTMLUNIT-3252500
  • published 2 Apr 2023
  • disclosed 29 Jan 2023
  • credit Siebene@

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

net.sourceforge.htmlunit:htmlunit is a GUI-Less browser for Java programs

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) via XSTL, when browsing the attacker’s webpage.

Note: Users are advised to upgrade to org.htmlunit:htmlunit component v3.0.0 as it contains a fix for this issue.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
9.8 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

9.8 critical