CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2019-5442

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.

5 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 10 / Impact : 2.9

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact PARTIAL

Scope

7.5 /10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://hackerone.com/reports/506791 Exploit Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:pippo:pippo:1.12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2019-06-12 04:29

Updated : 2020-10-16 03:05

NVD link : CVE-2019-5442

Mitre link : CVE-2019-5442

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-776

Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')