What is CVE-2023-1932?

CVE-2023-1932 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Hibernate Hibernate-Validator, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-11-07.

How severe is CVE-2023-1932?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Hibernate Hibernate-Validator

CVE-2023-1932

A flaw was found in hibernate-validator's 'isValid' method in the org.hibernate.validator.internal.constraintvalidators.hv.SafeHtmlValidator class, which can be bypassed by omitting the tag ending in a less-than character. Browsers may render an invalid html, allowing HTML injection or Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) attacks.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2024-11-07 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (42.3th percentile), scored 2026-11-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 42nd percentile — 42.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1932 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (issue-tracking, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-1932?: CVE-2023-1932 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Hibernate Hibernate-Validator, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-11-07.
How severe is CVE-2023-1932?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.