In short
- CVE-2019-5442 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting ro.pippo:pippo-jaxb, pippo (pippo).
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.4%, higher than 73.2% of all vulnerabilities.
- No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.
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.
NVD 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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