Impact: Moderate Public Date: 2019-04-17 CWE: CWE-776 Bugzilla: 1709860: CVE-2019-5427 c3p0: loading XML configuration leads to denial of service 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.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2019-5427 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 7.5 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | High |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Satellite 6 | c3p0 | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Satellite 5 | c3p0 | Under investigation |
| Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes 1.0 | vertx | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Mobile Application Platform On-Premise 4 | c3p0 | Under investigation |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse 7 | c3p0 | Under investigation |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 | c3p0 | Under investigation |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5 | c3p0 | Under investigation |
| Red Hat JBoss EWS 2 | c3p0 | Under investigation |
| Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6 | c3p0 | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Gluster Storage 3 | c3p0 | Under investigation |
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