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High, CVSS 7.5

XML Entity Expansion in Pippo

CVE-2019-5442GHSA-hwcx-9p4j-7hwj

What to do

Vendor response not established. Follow the primary source's mitigation guidance and check back for a fix.

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Affected packages

  • Maven ro.pippo:pippo-jaxb

    Affected
    <= 1.12.0
    Fixed in
    no fixed version recorded

Sources

Severity and exploitation
Exploitation
No confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next marks exploitation only from CISA KEV.
CVSS
7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
  • CVE-2019-5442: 1.44% estimated exploitation activity in the next 30 days; percentile 73.27 (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-03). This is a model estimate, not proof of exploitation or customer exposure.
Source description

As published by the source; long descriptions are shortened.

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.

Dates and revisions
Published by the source
Last modified by the source
Source last checked
  1. Revision 1 · created ·

    Published from ghsa record GHSA-hwcx-9p4j-7hwj

Agent brief

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# Patch Next advisory brief: CVE-2019-5442

Advisory: XML Entity Expansion in Pippo
IDs: CVE-2019-5442, GHSA-hwcx-9p4j-7hwj
Record: https://patchnext.com/advisories/cve-2019-5442 (revision 1, source checked 26 Oct 2026, 16:05 UTC)
Inventory: none attached. This brief comes from a public page and does not say whether any deployment is affected.
Severity: High (CVSS 7.5)
Exploitation: no confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next confirms exploitation only from CISA KEV.
Vendor response: Vendor response not established. A vendor fix does not mean a deployment is fixed.

## Affected components
- Maven ro.pippo:pippo-jaxb: affected <= 1.12.0

## Suggested inspection (read-only)
- Maven ro.pippo:pippo-jaxb: check the installed version with your package manager.

## Supported action
No complete vendor fix is recorded. Follow the primary source's mitigation guidance and check this record again before closing anything.

## Required regression checks
- Run the test suite and a production build.
- Exercise the features that depend on ro.pippo:pippo-jaxb.
- Repeat the inspection and confirm that only fixed versions remain installed.

## Rollback considerations
- Keep the previous lockfile and deployment artifact. Rolling back reinstates the vulnerable version, so apply any documented mitigation while you fix forward.

## Unresolved questions
- Which deployments run an affected version?
- Exploitation status can change. Check again before lowering the priority.
- Mark the work resolved only after the fixed version is verified in production.

## Sources
- Verified: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hwcx-9p4j-7hwj (GitHub-reviewed advisory GHSA-hwcx-9p4j-7hwj lists affected ranges: Maven ro.pippo:pippo-jaxb >=0 <=1.12.0)

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