NULL pointer dereference in Selenium - CVE-2023-5590

 

NULL pointer dereference in Selenium - CVE-2023-5590

Published: April 30, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU108090
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-5590
CWE-ID: CWE-476
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

Selenium
Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA)
IBM Observability with Instana
Rational Performance Tester
DevOps Test Performance

How to mitigate CVE-2023-5590

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability..

Selenium - update to 4.14.0
Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA) - update to 5.4.3
DevOps Test Performance - update to 11.0.7
IBM Observability with Instana - update to 1.0.293

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