USN-8220-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2023-49093)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-05-05 21:05 – Updated: 2026-06-25 10:47 – Source website
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Summary
htmlunit vulnerability
Details

It was discovered that HtmlUnit was vulnerable to remote code execution via XSLT when browsing an attacker-controlled webpage. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the application using HtmlUnit.

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