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CVE-2019-5442

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 1.44%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2019-06-12 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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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.