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GHSA-cr42-rg2m-mq4q

Docling's JATS XML backend is vulnerable to XML Entity Expansion (XXE) attacks

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2026-31247

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
PyPI docling <= 2.61.0 no fix listed

Details

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

Docling's JATS XML backend is vulnerable to XML Entity Expansion (XXE) attacks thru 2.61.0. The backend uses etree.parse() to parse XML files without disabling entity resolution. An attacker can craft a malicious XML file containing a nested entity expansion payload (XML Bomb). When processed by Docling, the exponential expansion of entities leads to excessive resource consumption, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition on the system running the Docling parser.

References

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