CVE-2019-5442 – ro.pippo:pippo-jaxb

Package

Manager: maven
Name: ro.pippo:pippo-jaxb
Vulnerable Version: >=0 <=1.12.0

Severity

Level: High

CVSS v3.1: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS: 0.00334 pctl0.5564

Details

XML Entity Expansion in Pippo 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.

Metadata

Created: 2019-06-13T20:22:30Z
Modified: 2021-08-16T15:20:04Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2019/06/GHSA-hwcx-9p4j-7hwj/GHSA-hwcx-9p4j-7hwj.json
CWE IDs: ["CWE-776"]
Alternative ID: GHSA-hwcx-9p4j-7hwj
Finding: F083
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