GHSA-84p2-vf58-xhxv

Billion laughs attack in c3p0

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2019-5427
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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

PackageVersions
Maven · com.mchange:c3p0introduced 0, fixed 0.9.5.4

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database