CVE-2019-5442

High

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.5
Exploit probability—
ProductPippo
PublishedJun 12, 2019
First seenJun 12, 2019
Weakness typeCWE-776CWE-776

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
pippo pippo1.12.0—
ro.pippo:pippo-jaxbMavenv ≤ 1.12.0—

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