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CVE-2019-5442: Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

June 13, 2019 (updated August 16, 2021)

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.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-hwcx-9p4j-7hwj
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5442

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions up to 1.12.0

Solution

Unfortunately, there is no solution available yet.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-776: Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

Source file

maven/ro.pippo/pippo-jaxb/CVE-2019-5442.yml

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