PYSEC-2026-2454 Docling's METS GBS backend is vulnerable to XML Entity Expansion (XXE) attacks

Docling's METS GBS backend is vulnerable to XML Entity Expansion XXE attacks thru 2.61.0. The backend extracts and validates XML files from .tar.gz archives using etree.fromstring without disabling entity resolution. An attacker can craft a malicious XML file with nested entity definitions XML Bo...