CVE-2019-5427

HIGH7.5EPSS 5.7%

Billion laughs attack in c3p0

Published: 4/23/2019Modified: 5/16/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5427

Description

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.

Affected packages (2)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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