CVE-2019-5427 (GCVE-0-2019-5427)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-04-22 20:52 – Updated: 2024-08-04 19:54
VLAI
Summary
c3p0 version < 0.9.5.4 may be exploited by a billion laughs attack when loading XML configuration due to missing protections against recursive entity expansion when loading configuration.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-776 - XML Entity Expansion (CWE-776)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a c3p0 Affected: before 0.9.5.4
Date Public
2019-04-16 00:00
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