CVE-2026-31248

Docling's METS GBS backend is vulnerable to XML Entity Expansion (XXE) attacks thru 2.61.0

High · published May 11, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
41.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Docling's METS GBS backend is vulnerable to XML Entity Expansion (XXE) attacks thru 2.61.0. The backend extracts and validates XML files from .tar.gz archives using etree.fromstring() without disabling entity resolution. An attacker can craft a malicious XML file with nested entity definitions (XML Bomb) and package it into a .tar.gz archive. When processed by Docling, the exponential expansion of entities during XML parsing leads to excessive resource consumption, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition on the system running the Docling parser.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00488 · 41.0th percentile
Published
2026-05-11T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 MAY 00:00Z
    Docling's METS GBS backend is vulnerable to XML Entity Expansion (XXE) attacks thru 2.61.0
    cvelistv5