CVE-2019-5442: Pippo

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Pippo Pippo: version 1.12.0 only

Published 2019-06-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.