VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-31247

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability0.35%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-05-11
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

Docling's JATS XML backend is vulnerable to XML Entity Expansion (XXE) attacks thru 2.61.0. The backend uses etree.parse() to parse XML files without disabling entity resolution. An attacker can craft a malicious XML file containing a nested entity expansion payload (XML Bomb). When processed by Docling, the exponential expansion of entities leads to excessive resource consumption, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition on the system running the Docling parser.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Primary references