Vulnerability Details 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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.003
EPSS Ranking 55.7%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
CVSS v2 Score 5.0