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Closes #19179: make table of XML vulnerabilities clearer by using "everyday" booleans and explaining the table beforehand.

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Georg Brandl 13 years ago
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@ -53,15 +53,17 @@ access local files, to generate network connections to other machines, or
to or circumvent firewalls. The attacks on XML abuse unfamiliar features
like inline `DTD`_ (document type definition) with entities.
The following table gives an overview of the known attacks and if the various
modules are vulnerable to them.
========================= ======== ========= ========= ======== =========
kind sax etree minidom pulldom xmlrpc
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billion laughs **True** **True** **True** **True** **True**
quadratic blowup **True** **True** **True** **True** **True**
external entity expansion **True** False (1) False (2) **True** False (3)
DTD retrieval **True** False False **True** False
decompression bomb False False False False **True**
billion laughs **Yes** **Yes** **Yes** **Yes** **Yes**
quadratic blowup **Yes** **Yes** **Yes** **Yes** **Yes**
external entity expansion **Yes** No (1) No (2) **Yes** No (3)
DTD retrieval **Yes** No No **Yes** No
decompression bomb No No No No **Yes**
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1. :mod:`xml.etree.ElementTree` doesn't expand external entities and raises a

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