CVE-2019-5442

Published Jun 12, 2019 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 1.4% KEV · Not listed
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.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-0543 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-hwcx-9p4j-7hwj XML Entity Expansion in Pippo
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
hackerone
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 7:54 PM
Reserved
Jan 4, 2019, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jun 12, 2019, 4:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:37 AM