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GHSA-qpmc-wprv-x746

Inline DTD allows XML bomb attack

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2019-15160

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
Hex sweet_xml < 0.7.0 0.7.0

Details

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

The SweetXml (aka sweet_xml) package through 0.6.6 for Erlang and Elixir allows attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via an XML entity expansion attack with an inline DTD.

References

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