VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-5442

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.44%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-06-12
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

XML Entity Expansion (Billion Laughs Attack) on Pippo 1.12.0 results in Denial of Service.Entities are created recursively and large amounts of heap memory is taken. Eventually, the JVM process will run out of memory. Otherwise, if the OS does not bound the memory on that process, memory will continue to be exhausted and will affect other processes on the system.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-776: Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

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