Fluid Attacks Database

Description

Inline DTD allows XML bomb attack 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.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Component	Affected version	Patched versions
hex	sweet_xml	=0.1.0 \|\| =0.1.1 \|\| =0.2.0 \|\| =0.2.1 \|\| =0.3.0 \|\| =0.4.0 \|\| =0.5.0 \|\| =0.5.1 \|\| =0.6.0 \|\| =0.6.1 \|\| =0.6.2 \|\| =0.6.3 \|\| =0.6.4 \|\| =0.6.5 \|\| =0.6.6 \|\| >=0 <0.7.0	0.7.0

Aliases

1. CVE-2019-151602. NVD-2019-151603. OSV-GHSA-qpmc-wprv-x7464. OSV-2019-151605. GCVE-2019-15160

References

1. https://github.com/kbrw/sweet_xml/issues/712. https://hex.pm/packages/sweet_xml

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