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doclingGHSA-cr42-rg2m-mq4q

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

docling

CVE-2026-31247 · Published May 11, 2026 · updated Jul 13, 2026

High7.5
No fix yet
GitHub advisory

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.

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
docling
PyPI
<= 2.61.0No fix yet
Details and references
CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity from
GitHub (reviewed advisory)
Weakness
CWE-400
Also known as
CVE-2026-31247, PYSEC-2026-2455

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