GHSA-v899-28g4-qmh8

XML External Entity vulnerability in Easy-XML

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2020-26705

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	easy-xml	<= 0.5.0	no fix listed

Details

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

The parseXML function in Easy-XML 0.5.0 was discovered to have a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability which allows for an attacker to expose sensitive data or perform a denial of service (DOS) via a crafted external entity entered into the XML content as input.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26705 advisory
https://github.com/darkfoxprime/python-easy_xml/issues/1 web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v899-28g4-qmh8 advisory
https://github.com/darkfoxprime/python-easy_xml package
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/easy-xml/PYSEC-2021-388.yaml web