CVE-2019-5442

HIGH Year: 2019
CVSS v3 Score
7.5
High
CVSS v2 Score
5.0
Medium
Weakness Type
CWE-776
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Vulnerability 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.

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