GHSA-7r9x-qrpr-3cxw

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GHSA-7r9x-qrpr-3cxw

Summary: mofh Vulnerable to Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

Details: The `xml.etree.ElementTree` module that mofh used up until version `1.0.1` implements a simple and efficient API for parsing and creating XML data. But it makes the application vulnerable to: - [Billion Laughs attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs_attack): It is a type of denial-of-service attack aimed at XML parsers. It uses multiple levels of nested entities. If one large entity is repeated with a couple of thousand chars repeatedly, the parser gets overwhelmed. - [Quadratic blowup attack](https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerabilities/web/xml-quadratic-blowup-denial-of-service-attack/): It is similar to a Billion Laughs attack. It abuses entity expansion, too. Instead of nested entities, it repeats one large entity with a couple of thousand chars repeatedly. The Problem has been patched starting from version `1.0.1` by utilising the `defusedxml` package instead of `xml.etree.ElementTree`. ### Workarounds For this vulnerability to be exploited the user must be using a custom API URL, which has to be manually given using the `api_url` argument, or MyOwnFreeHost's API must be hacked. So, if the user did not use a custom API URL they _should_ be fine, however, upgrading is still advised. Another workaround could be to call `defusedxml.defuse_stdlib()` before making any requests using the client.

References: https://github.com/Wallvon/mofh/security/advisories/GHSA-7r9x-qrpr-3cxw, https://github.com/Wallvon/mofh/commit/da0d33cfd368e2f237ab28bf7a7f00e3d281005a, https://github.com/Wallvon/mofh, https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerabilities/web/xml-quadratic-blowup-denial-of-service-attack