CVE-2019-5442
HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: June 12, 2019 at 03:08 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:37 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorPippo
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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (1)
x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://hackerone.com/reports/506791CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-776
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