GHSA-9F4Q-Q82Q-4359 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...

Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

Overview docling is a SDK and CLI for parsing PDF, DOCX, HTML, and more, to a unified document representation for powering downstream workflows such as gen AI applications. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs 'XML Entity...

PT-2026-39633

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...