CVE-2019-5442CWE-776

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…

published June 12, 2019

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
73.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01443 · 73.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-776 · Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')
Published
2019-06-12T15:08Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 JUN 15:08Z
    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…
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