GHSA-6xm7-3cc5-47f9

MEI2Volpiano is vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE), leading to a Denial of Service (DoS)

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2022-37189

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	mei2volpiano	<= 0.8.2	no fix listed

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

DDMAL MEI2Volpiano 0.8.2 is vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE), leading to a Denial of Service. This occurs due to the usage of the unsafe 'xml.etree' library to parse untrusted XML input.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-37189 advisory
https://docs.python.org/3/library/xml.html#xml-vulnerabilities web
https://github.com/DDMAL/MEI2Volpiano web
https://github.com/DDMAL/MEI2Volpiano/blob/987b70fff991235e682405f901388af0f414eaa8/mei2volpiano/mei2volpiano.py#L59 web
https://pyup.io/vulnerabilities/CVE-2022-37189/50928 web