CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2019-5442
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
1.44%
Original NVD 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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