GHSA-qpmc-wprv-x746

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    GHSA-qpmc-wprv-x746

    Published: 12 Apr 2022Last Modified: 10 Dec 2025

    Summary: Inline DTD allows XML bomb attack

    Details: 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.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15160, https://github.com/kbrw/sweet_xml/issues/71, https://github.com/kbrw/sweet_xml, https://hex.pm/packages/sweet_xml

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: sweet_xml

    Purl: pkg:hex/sweet_xml

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.7.0

    Affected versions

    0.1.0
    0.1.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Integrity
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