CVE-2019-5442
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 1.4%
exploitation probability
1.4%top 28% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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
n/a · PippoReferences
https://hackerone.com/reports/506791