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

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HIGH

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

Published Jun 12, 2019

7.5

HIGH

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 1.44%

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.

Affected products

Vendor n/a Product Pippo Default
n/a
- Version
  1.12.0
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  -

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

n/a

Pippo

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
1.12.0	affected	-

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-776

References (3)

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hwcx-9p4j-7hwj
Advisory
https://hackerone.com/reports/506791
x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5442

Link	Providers	Tags
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hwcx-9p4j-7hwj		Advisory
https://hackerone.com/reports/506791		x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5442

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner hackerone

Published Jun 12, 2019

Updated Aug 4, 2024

Reserved Jan 4, 2019

Link CVE-2019-5442

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2019-5442

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2019-5442

GHSA-HWCX-9P4J-7HWJ