CVE-2019-5442

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jun 12, 2019
Updated
Aug 4, 2024
Reserved
Jan 4, 2019

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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

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

  • CWE-776 XML Entity Expansion (CWE-776)

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Pippon/a
  • 1.12.0Affected

References

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