CVE-2019-5442

HIGH

Pippo 1.12.0 - DoS

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0033
EPSS Percentile 56.2%
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