kbrw/sweet_xml · Security
Inline DTD allows XML bomb attack
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-qpmc-wprv-x746
- CVE ID
- CVE-2019-15160
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
The SweetXml (aka sweet_xml) package through 0.6.6 for Erlang and Elixir allows attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via an XML entity expansion attack with an inline DTD.
CWEs
- CWE-611 · Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
- CWE-776 · Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')