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SCA: security update for ro.pippo:pippo-jaxb (GHSA-hwcx-9p4j-7hwj)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 446673

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2019-5442)

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hwcx-9p4j-7hwj

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 446673

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/31/2026

Updated: 8/31/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-5442

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/13/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/12/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-5442

cwe: CWE-776