CVE-2019-5442

HIGH

Pippo 1.12.0 - Denial of Service via XML Entity Expansion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://hackerone.com/reports/506791

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0144
EPSS Percentile 69.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-776
Status published
Products (2)
pippo/pippo 1.12.0
ro.pippo/pippo-jaxb 0Maven
Published Jun 12, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026