CVE-2023-5590 — NULL Pointer Dereference in GitHub repository seleniumhq/selenium prior to 4

NULL Pointer Dereference in GitHub repository seleniumhq/selenium prior to 4.14.0.

01What is this vulnerability?

NULL Pointer Dereference in GitHub repository seleniumhq/selenium prior to 4.14.0.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
seleniumhq	seleniumhq/selenium	unspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-10-15T22:14:03.767Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-16T20:00:02.076Z

09References

• huntr.dev — https://huntr.dev/bounties/e268cd68-4f34-49bd-878b-82b96dcc0c99
• github.com — https://github.com/seleniumhq/selenium/commit/023a0d52f106321838ab1c0997e76693f4…