Is CVE-2019-5442 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2019-5442 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2019-5442?

CVE-2019-5442 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2019-5442?

CVE-2019-5442 has an EPSS score of 1.44% (70th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix or mitigate CVE-2019-5442?

No published fix for CVE-2019-5442 has been found yet. Check the linked vendor advisories for guidance as it becomes available.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2019-5442

HIGHEPSS 70th pctl

7.5

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

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.

CWE-776

How to fix

No published remediation has been found for this vulnerability's affected products yet.

Mitigation guidance may be in the linked vendor advisories in the References section below.

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CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityNone

IntegrityNone

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

1.44%probability of exploitation in 30 days

70thpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 70% of all known CVEs.

References

Exploit1

hackerone.com

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-776 vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2009-1955	High	7.5	53%	-	Fix
CVE-2017-18640	High	7.5	27%	-	Fix
CVE-2019-11253	High	7.5	26%	-	Fix
CVE-2019-12401	High	7.5	7.5%	-	-
CVE-2023-20052	Medium	5.3	7.0%	-	Fix
CVE-2019-15903	High	7.5	6.7%	-	Fix

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.