UnratedRed Hat & Ubuntu Linux

HtmlUnit vulnerability

USN-8220-1 Published May 5, 2026

CVE-2023-49093

Affected products & platforms

Red Hat & Ubuntu LinuxUnclassified

Summary

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. Affected Ubuntu releases: 18.04, 16.04. CVEs: CVE-2023-49093.

Affected versions

Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04

Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source

Mitigation checklist

Recommended fix / mitigation

Apply available updates: `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade` (a standard system update installs the fix).

Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source

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