Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package c3p0 (opens in a new tab)

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Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1910-C3P0-581522
published22 Apr 2019
disclosed22 Apr 2019

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Introduced: 22 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-5427 (opens in a new tab) CWE-776 (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream c3p0 package and not the c3p0 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.