Xml Element

The application was found using the `xml.etree` package for processing XML. Pythons default xml processors suffer from various XML parsing vulnerabilities and care must be taken when handling XML data. Additionally, depending on the version of Python, more critical vulnerabilities such as eXternal XML Entity injection maybe exploitable. The `etree` package s

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greprules fetch gitlab-sast-python-xml-rule-element --engine opengrep

Description

The application was found using the `xml.etree` package for processing XML. Pythons default xml processors suffer from various XML parsing vulnerabilities and care must be taken when handling XML data. Additionally, depending on the version of Python, more critical vulnerabilities such as eXternal XML Entity injection maybe exploitable. The `etree` package s

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