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
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.
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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
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