CVE-2019-5442

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.

• CWE-776
• CWE-776

• https://hackerone.com/reports/506791Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://hackerone.com/reports/506791Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Published

Jun 12, 2019

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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