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@pixeebot pixeebot bot commented Oct 18, 2024

This codemod sets the parser parameter in calls to lxml.etree.parse and lxml.etree.fromstring if omitted or set to None (the default value). Unfortunately, the default parser=None means lxml will rely on an unsafe parser, making your code potentially vulnerable to entity expansion attacks and external entity (XXE) attacks.

The changes look as follows:

  import lxml.etree
- lxml.etree.parse("path_to_file")
- lxml.etree.fromstring("xml_str")
+ lxml.etree.parse("path_to_file", parser=lxml.etree.XMLParser(resolve_entities=False))
+ lxml.etree.fromstring("xml_str", parser=lxml.etree.XMLParser(resolve_entities=False))
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pixeebot bot commented Oct 26, 2024

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