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CVE-2019-15160

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-08-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-776

Description

The SweetXml (aka sweet_xml) package through 0.6.6 for Erlang and Elixir allows attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via an XML entity expansion attack with an inline DTD.

Affected products

• Kbrw Sweet Xml: through 0.6.6

References

• https://github.com/kbrw/sweet_xml/issues/71
• https://hex.pm/packages/sweet_xml
• https://github.com/kbrw/sweet_xml/issues/71
• https://hex.pm/packages/sweet_xml

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