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GHSA-hwcx-9p4j-7hwj

XML Entity Expansion in Pippo

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2019-5442

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
Maven ro.pippo:pippo-jaxb <= 1.12.0 no fix listed

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.