Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package htmlUnit (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-HTMLUNIT-5660385
- published29 May 2023
- disclosed25 May 2023
Introduced: 25 May 2023
CVE-2023-2798 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream htmlUnit package and not the htmlUnit package as distributed by RHEL.
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.