CVE-2019-5442

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-776

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jun 12, 2019
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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