CVE-2026-44020

Docling simplifies document processing by parsing diverse formats and providing integrations with the generative AI ecosystem. From 2.13.0 until 2.74.0, the USPTO patent XML parser used the standard xml.sax.parseString without protection against XML External Entity XXE attacks. An attacker could...

CVE-2026-44020 Docling: Unsafe XML Entity Expansion in USPTO Patent Backend

Docling simplifies document processing by parsing diverse formats and providing integrations with the generative AI ecosystem. From 2.13.0 until 2.74.0, the USPTO patent XML parser used the standard xml.sax.parseString without protection against XML External Entity XXE attacks. An attacker could...

CVE-2026-44020 Docling: Unsafe XML Entity Expansion in USPTO Patent Backend

Docling simplifies document processing by parsing diverse formats and providing integrations with the generative AI ecosystem. From 2.13.0 until 2.74.0, the USPTO patent XML parser used the standard xml.sax.parseString without protection against XML External Entity XXE attacks. An attacker could...

CVE-2026-44020

Docling (USPTO patent XML parsers in the Docling stack) contains an XXE vulnerability in the XML parser used by the USPTO patent formats. From 2.13.0 through 2.74.0, the USPTO patent XML parser used xml.sax.parseString() without protections against external entity references, enabling attackers t...

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 XML Entity Expansion in backend/xml/usptobackend.py‎'s use of parseStrin...

GHSA-M88R-RG27-5XFG Docling: Unsafe XML Entity Expansion in USPTO Patent Backend

Impact The USPTO patent XML parser used the standard xml.sax.parseString without protection against XML External Entity XXE attacks. An attacker could craft malicious USPTO patent XML files with external entity references that could: - Read arbitrary files from the server filesystem - Perform...

Docling: Unsafe XML Entity Expansion in USPTO Patent Backend

Impact The USPTO patent XML parser used the standard xml.sax.parseString without protection against XML External Entity XXE attacks. An attacker could craft malicious USPTO patent XML files with external entity references that could: - Read arbitrary files from the server filesystem - Perform...

PT-2026-46101

Impact The USPTO patent XML parser used the standard xml.sax.parseString without protection against XML External Entity XXE attacks. An attacker could craft malicious USPTO patent XML files with external entity references that could: - Read arbitrary files from the server filesystem - Perform...

PT-2026-46121

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Docling versions prior to 2.74.0 Description The USPTO patent XML parser uses the xml.sax.parseString function without protection against XML External Entity XXE attacks. This allows an attacker to use malicious XML files with external entity...

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