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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone

Published: 2019-06-12T15:08:59

Updated: 2024-08-04T19:54:53.549Z

Reserved: 2019-01-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-5442

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-06-12T16:29:00.300

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:44:56.550

Link: CVE-2019-5442

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