CVE-2023-49093

CVSS 3.1 Score 8.8 of 10 (high)

Details

Published Dec 4, 2023

Updated: Dec 11, 2023

CWE ID 94

Summary

CVE-2023-49093 refers to a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting HtmlUnit, a GUI-less browser for Java applications. Hackers can exploit this issue by crafting malicious XSL Transformations (XSTL) on their webpages, which, when visited by the vulnerable HtmlUnit instance, results in the execution of arbitrary code. Organizations utilizing HtmlUnit are advised to update to version 3.9.0 to mitigate this risk.

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HtmlUnit

Affected Vendors

HTML Unit

Advisories, Assessments, and Mitigations

https://app.recordedfuture.com/live/sc/entity/tgfGC6
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-49093
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-49093

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