Hello and XXE

Jim Manico <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:38:54 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.xerces-j.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

I am a security researcher worried about the threat of XXE in Java parsers.

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XML_External_Entity_%28XXE%29_Processing

Java 8 made the choice to disable External Entities by default and I'd love to see Xerces2 make the same choice. This is a pretty serious risk to be left on by default.

Has there been any discussion on this before? Forgive me if I am late to the game here.

Aloha,
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Jim Manico
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