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CVE-2020-5227

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2020
Source publication
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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Feedgen Vulnerable to XML Denial of Service Attacks

Feedgen (python feedgen) before 0.9.0 is susceptible to XML Denial of Service attacks. The *feedgen* library allows supplying XML as content for some of the available fields. This XML will be parsed and integrated into the existing XML tree. During this process, feedgen is vulnerable to XML Denial of Service Attacks (e.g. XML Bomb). This becomes a concern in particular if feedgen is used to include content from untrused sources and if XML (including XHTML) is directly included instead of providing plain tex content only. This problem has been fixed in feedgen 0.9.0 which disallows XML entity expansion and external resources.

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

python-feedgen

Vendor
lkiesow
Product
python-feedgen
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
Unknown
python-feedgen · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
< 0.9.0affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed