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High · 7.5 CVE-2019-5442 EUVD-2019-0543GHSA-hwcx-9p4j-7hwj

XML Entity Expansion in Pippo

Published Jun 12, 2019 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by hackerone

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

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— Pippo 1.12.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven ro.pippo:pippo-jaxb <= 1.12.0 — GHSA-hwcx-9p4j-7hwj

References