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.
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')