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defusedxml -- defusing XML bombs and other exploits
Latest Version Supported Python versions Travis CI codecov PyPI
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"It's just XML, what could probably go wrong?"
Christian Heimes
Synopsis
The results of an attack on a vulnerable XML library can be fairly
dramatic. With just a few hundred Bytes of XML data an attacker can
occupy several Gigabytes of memory within seconds. An attacker can
also keep CPUs busy for a long time with a small to medium size
request. Under some circumstances it is even possible to access local
files on your server, to circumvent a firewall, or to abuse services
to rebound attacks to third parties.
The attacks use and abuse less common features of XML and its
parsers. The majority of developers are unacquainted with features
such as processing instructions and entity expansions that XML
inherited from SGML. At best they know about from
experience with HTML but they are not aware that a document type
definition (DTD) can generate an HTTP request or load a file from the
file system.
None of the issues is new. They have been known for a long time.
Billion laughs was first reported in 2003. Nevertheless some XML
libraries and applications are still vulnerable and even heavy users
of XML are surprised by these features. It's hard to say whom to
blame for the situation. It's too short sighted to shift all blame on
XML parsers and XML libraries for using insecure default settings.
After all they properly implement XML specifications. Application
developers must not rely that a library is always configured for
security and potential harmful data by default.
Table of Contents
Attack vectors
billion laughs / exponential entity expansion
The Billion Laughs attack -- also known as exponential entity
expansion --uses multiple levels of nested entities. The original
example uses 9 levels of 10 expansions in each level to expand the
string lol to a string of 3 * 10 ^9 bytes, hence the name "billion
laughs". The resulting string occupies 3 GB (2.79 GiB) of memory;
intermediate strings require additional memory. Because most parsers
don't cache the intermediate step for every expansion it is repeated
over and over again. It increases the CPU load even more.
An XML document of just a few hundred bytes can disrupt all services
on a machine within seconds.
Example XML:
]>
&d;
quadratic blowup entity expansion
A quadratic blowup attack is similar to a Billion Laughs attack; it
abuses entity expansion, too. Instead of nested entities it repeats
one large entity with a couple of thousand chars over and over again.
The attack isn't as efficient as the exponential case but it avoids
triggering countermeasures of parsers against heavily nested
entities. Some parsers limit the depth and breadth of a single entity
but not the total amount of expanded text throughout an entire XML
document.
A medium-sized XML document with a couple of hundred kilobytes can
require a couple of hundred MB to several GB of memory. When the
attack is combined with some level of nested expansion an attacker is
able to achieve a higher ratio of success.
]>
&a;&a;&a;... repeat
external entity expansion (remote)
Entity declarations can contain more than just text for replacement.
They can also point to external resources by public identifiers or
system identifiers. System identifiers are standard URIs. When the
URI is a URL (e.g. a http:// locator) some parsers download the
resource from the remote location and embed them into the XML
document verbatim.
Simple example of a parsed external entity:
]>
ⅇ
The case of parsed external entities works only for valid XML
content. The XML standard also supports unparsed external entities
with a NData declaration.
External entity expansion opens the door to plenty of exploits. An
attacker can abuse a vulnerable XML library and application to
rebound and forward network requests with the IP address of the
server. It highly depends on the parser and the application what kind
of exploit is possible. For example:
* An attacker can circumvent firewalls and gain access to
restricted resources as all the requests are made from an
internal and trustworthy IP address, not from the outside.
* An attacker can abuse a service to attack, spy on or DoS your
servers but also third party services. The attack is disguised
with the IP address of the server and the attacker is able to
utilize the high bandwidth of a big machine.
* An attacker can exhaust additional resources on the machine, e.g.
with requests to a service that doesn't respond or responds with
very large files.
* An attacker may gain knowledge, when, how often and from which IP
address an XML document is accessed.
* An attacker could send mail from inside your network if the URL
handler supports smtp:// URIs.
external entity expansion (local file)
External entities with references to local files are a sub-case of
external entity expansion. It's listed as an extra attack because it
deserves extra attention. Some XML libraries such as lxml disable
network access by default but still allow entity expansion with local
file access by default. Local files are either referenced with a
file:// URL or by a file path (either relative or absolute).
Additionally, lxml's libxml2 has catalog support. XML catalogs like /
etc/xml/catalog are XML files, which map schema URIs to local files.
An attacker may be able to access and download all files that can be
read by the application process. This may include critical
configuration files, too.
]>
ⅇ
DTD retrieval
This case is similar to external entity expansion, too. Some XML
libraries like Python's xml.dom.pulldom retrieve document type
definitions from remote or local locations. Several attack scenarios
from the external entity case apply to this issue as well.
text
Python XML Libraries
kind sax etree minidom pulldom xmlrpc
billion laughs Maybe Maybe Maybe Maybe Maybe
(1) (1) (1) (1) (1)
quadratic blowup Maybe Maybe Maybe Maybe Maybe
(1) (1) (1) (1) (1)
external entity expansion False False False False false
(remote) (2) (3) (4) (2)
external entity expansion False False False False false
(local file) (2) (3) (4) (2)
DTD retrieval False False False False false
(2) (2)
gzip bomb False False False False True
xpath support (6) False False False False False
xsl(t) support (6) False False False False False
xinclude support (6) False True False False False
(5)
C library expat expat expat expat expat
vulnerabilities and features
1. expat parser >= 2.4.0 has billion laughs protection against XML
bombs (CVE-2013-0340). The parser has sensible defaults for
XML_SetBillionLaughsAttackProtectionMaximumAmplification and
XML_SetBillionLaughsAttackProtectionActivationThreshold.
2. Python >= 3.6.8, >= 3.7.1, and >= 3.8 no longer retrieve local
and remote resources with urllib, see bpo-17239.
3. xml.etree doesn't expand entities and raises a ParserError when
an entity occurs.
4. minidom doesn't expand entities and simply returns the unexpanded
entity verbatim.
5. Library has (limited) XInclude support but requires an additional
step to process inclusion.
6. These are features but they may introduce exploitable holes, see
Other things to consider
Settings in standard library
xml.sax.handler Features
feature_external_ges (http://xml.org/sax/features/
external-general-entities)
disables external entity expansion
feature_external_pes (http://xml.org/sax/features/
external-parameter-entities)
the option is ignored and doesn't modify any functionality
DOM xml.dom.xmlbuilder.Options
external_parameter_entities
ignored
external_general_entities
ignored
external_dtd_subset
ignored
entities
unsure
defusedxml
The defusedxml package (defusedxml on PyPI) contains several
Python-only workarounds and fixes for denial of service and other
vulnerabilities in Python's XML libraries. In order to benefit from
the protection you just have to import and use the listed functions /
classes from the right defusedxml module instead of the original
module. Merely defusedxml.xmlrpc is implemented as monkey patch.
Instead of:
>>> from xml.etree.ElementTree import parse
>>> et = parse(xmlfile)
alter code to:
>>> from defusedxml.ElementTree import parse
>>> et = parse(xmlfile)
Note
The defusedxml modules are not drop-in replacements of their stdlib
counterparts. The modules only provide functions and classes related
to parsing and loading of XML. For all other features, use the
classes, functions, and constants from the stdlib modules. For
example:
>>> from defusedxml import ElementTree as DET
>>> from xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
>>> root = DET.fromstring("")
>>> root.append(ET.Element("item"))
>>> ET.tostring(root)
b' '
Additionally the package has an untested function to monkey patch all
stdlib modules with defusedxml.defuse_stdlib().
Warning
defuse_stdlib() should be avoided. It can break third party package
or cause surprising side effects. Instead you should use the parsing
features of defusedxml explicitly.
All functions and parser classes accept three additional keyword
arguments. They return either the same objects as the original
functions or compatible subclasses.
forbid_dtd (default: False)
disallow XML with a processing instruction and raise a
DTDForbidden exception when a DTD processing instruction is found.
forbid_entities (default: True)
disallow XML with declarations inside the DTD and raise an
EntitiesForbidden exception when an entity is declared.
forbid_external (default: True)
disallow any access to remote or local resources in external entities
or DTD and raising an ExternalReferenceForbidden exception when a DTD
or entity references an external resource.
defusedxml (package)
DefusedXmlException, DTDForbidden, EntitiesForbidden,
ExternalReferenceForbidden, NotSupportedError
defuse_stdlib() (experimental)
defusedxml.cElementTree
NOTE defusedxml.cElementTree is deprecated and will be removed in a
future release. Import from defusedxml.ElementTree instead.
parse(), iterparse(), fromstring(), XMLParser
defusedxml.ElementTree
parse(), iterparse(), fromstring(), XMLParser
defusedxml.expatreader
create_parser(), DefusedExpatParser
defusedxml.sax
parse(), parseString(), make_parser()
defusedxml.expatbuilder
parse(), parseString(), DefusedExpatBuilder, DefusedExpatBuilderNS
defusedxml.minidom
parse(), parseString()
defusedxml.pulldom
parse(), parseString()
defusedxml.xmlrpc
The fix is implemented as monkey patch for the stdlib's xmlrpc
package (3.x) or xmlrpclib module (2.x). The function monkey_patch()
enables the fixes, unmonkey_patch() removes the patch and puts the
code in its former state.
The monkey patch protects against XML related attacks as well as
decompression bombs and excessively large requests or responses. The
default setting is 30 MB for requests, responses and gzip
decompression. You can modify the default by changing the module
variable MAX_DATA. A value of -1 disables the limit.
defusedxml.lxml
DEPRECATED The module is deprecated and will be removed in a future
release.
lxml is safe against most attack scenarios. lxml uses libxml2 for
parsing XML. The library has builtin mitigations against billion
laughs and quadratic blowup attacks. The parser allows a limit amount
of entity expansions, then fails. lxml also disables network access
by default. libxml2 lxml FAQ lists additional recommendations for
safe parsing, for example counter measures against compression bombs.
The default parser resolves entities and protects against huge trees
and deeply nested entities. To disable entities expansion, use a
custom parser object:
from lxml import etree
parser = etree.XMLParser(resolve_entities=False)
root = etree.fromstring("", parser=parser)
The module acts as an example how you could protect code that uses
lxml.etree. It implements a custom Element class that filters out
Entity instances, a custom parser factory and a thread local storage
for parser instances. It also has a check_docinfo() function which
inspects a tree for internal or external DTDs and entity
declarations. In order to check for entities lxml > 3.0 is required.
parse(), fromstring() RestrictedElement, GlobalParserTLS,
getDefaultParser(), check_docinfo()
defusedexpat
The defusedexpat package (defusedexpat on PyPI) is no longer
supported. expat parser 2.4.0 and newer come with billion laughs
protection against XML bombs.
How to avoid XML vulnerabilities
Update to Python 3.6.8, 3.7.1, or newer. The SAX and DOM parser do
not load external entities from files or network resources.
Update to expat to 2.4.0 or newer. It has billion laughs protection
with sensible default limits to mitigate billion laughs and quadratic
blowup.
Official binaries from python.org use libexpat 2.4.0 since 3.7.12,
3.8.12, 3.9.7, and 3.10.0 (August 2021). Third party vendors may use
older or newer versions of expat. pyexpat.version_info contains the
current runtime version of libexpat. Vendors may have backported
fixes to older versions without bumping the version number.
Example:
import sys
import pyexpat
has_mitigations = (
sys.version_info >= (3, 7, 1) and
pyexpat.version_info >= (2, 4, 0)
)
Best practices
* Don't allow DTDs
* Don't expand entities
* Don't resolve externals
* Limit parse depth
* Limit total input size
* Limit parse time
* Favor a SAX or iterparse-like parser for potential large data
* Validate and properly quote arguments to XSL transformations and
XPath queries
* Don't use XPath expression from untrusted sources
* Don't apply XSL transformations that come untrusted sources
(based on Brad Hill's Attacking XML Security)
Other things to consider
XML, XML parsers and processing libraries have more features and
possible issue that could lead to DoS vulnerabilities or security
exploits in applications. I have compiled an incomplete list of
theoretical issues that need further research and more attention. The
list is deliberately pessimistic and a bit paranoid, too. It contains
things that might go wrong under daffy circumstances.
attribute blowup / hash collision attack
XML parsers may use an algorithm with quadratic runtime O(n ^2) to
handle attributes and namespaces. If it uses hash tables
(dictionaries) to store attributes and namespaces the implementation
may be vulnerable to hash collision attacks, thus reducing the
performance to O(n ^2) again. In either case an attacker is able to
forge a denial of service attack with an XML document that contains
thousands upon thousands of attributes in a single node.
I haven't researched yet if expat, pyexpat or libxml2 are vulnerable.
decompression bomb
The issue of decompression bombs (aka ZIP bomb) apply to all XML
libraries that can parse compressed XML stream like gzipped HTTP
streams or LZMA-ed files. For an attacker it can reduce the amount of
transmitted data by three magnitudes or more. Gzip is able to
compress 1 GiB zeros to roughly 1 MB, lzma is even better:
$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1024 | gzip > zeros.gz
$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1024 | lzma -z > zeros.xy
$ ls -sh zeros.*
1020K zeros.gz
148K zeros.xy
None of Python's standard XML libraries decompress streams except for
xmlrpclib. The module is vulnerable to decompression bombs.
lxml can load and process compressed data through libxml2
transparently. libxml2 can handle even very large blobs of compressed
data efficiently without using too much memory. But it doesn't
protect applications from decompression bombs. A carefully written
SAX or iterparse-like approach can be safe.
Processing Instruction
PI's like:
may impose more threats for XML processing. It depends if and how a
processor handles processing instructions. The issue of URL retrieval
with network or local file access apply to processing instructions,
too.
Other DTD features
DTD has more features like . I haven't researched how
these features may be a security threat.
XPath
XPath statements may introduce DoS vulnerabilities. Code should never
execute queries from untrusted sources. An attacker may also be able
to create an XML document that makes certain XPath queries costly or
resource hungry.
XPath injection attacks
XPath injeciton attacks pretty much work like SQL injection attacks.
Arguments to XPath queries must be quoted and validated properly,
especially when they are taken from the user. The page Avoid the
dangers of XPath injection list some ramifications of XPath
injections.
Python's standard library doesn't have XPath support. Lxml supports
parameterized XPath queries which does proper quoting. You just have
to use its xpath() method correctly:
# DON'T
>>> tree.xpath("/tag[@id='%s']" % value)
# instead do
>>> tree.xpath("/tag[@id=$tagid]", tagid=name)
XInclude
XML Inclusion is another way to load and include external files:
This feature should be disabled when XML files from an untrusted
source are processed. Some Python XML libraries and libxml2 support
XInclude but don't have an option to sandbox inclusion and limit it
to allowed directories.
XMLSchema location
A validating XML parser may download schema files from the
information in a xsi:schemaLocation attribute.
XSL Transformation
You should keep in mind that XSLT is a Turing complete language.
Never process XSLT code from unknown or untrusted source! XSLT
processors may allow you to interact with external resources in ways
you can't even imagine. Some processors even support extensions that
allow read/write access to file system, access to JRE objects or
scripting with Jython.
Example from Attacking XML Security for Xalan-J:
Related CVEs
CVE-2013-1664
Unrestricted entity expansion induces DoS vulnerabilities in Python
XML libraries (XML bomb)
CVE-2013-1665
External entity expansion in Python XML libraries inflicts potential
security flaws and DoS vulnerabilities
Other languages / frameworks
Several other programming languages and frameworks are vulnerable as
well. A couple of them are affected by the fact that libxml2 up to
2.9.0 has no protection against quadratic blowup attacks. Most of
them have potential dangerous default settings for entity expansion
and external entities, too.
Perl
Perl's XML::Simple is vulnerable to quadratic entity expansion and
external entity expansion (both local and remote).
Ruby
Ruby's REXML document parser is vulnerable to entity expansion
attacks (both quadratic and exponential) but it doesn't do external
entity expansion by default. In order to counteract entity expansion
you have to disable the feature:
REXML::Document.entity_expansion_limit = 0
libxml-ruby and hpricot don't expand entities in their default
configuration.
PHP
PHP's SimpleXML API is vulnerable to quadratic entity expansion and
loads entities from local and remote resources. The option
LIBXML_NONET disables network access but still allows local file
access. LIBXML_NOENT seems to have no effect on entity expansion in
PHP 5.4.6.
C# / .NET / Mono
Information in XML DoS and Defenses (MSDN) suggest that .NET is
vulnerable with its default settings. The article contains code
snippets how to create a secure XML reader:
XmlReaderSettings settings = new XmlReaderSettings();
settings.ProhibitDtd = false;
settings.MaxCharactersFromEntities = 1024;
settings.XmlResolver = null;
XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(stream, settings);
Java
Untested. The documentation of Xerces and its Xerces SecurityMananger
sounds like Xerces is also vulnerable to billion laugh attacks with
its default settings. It also does entity resolving when an
org.xml.sax.EntityResolver is configured. I'm not yet sure about the
default setting here.
Java specialists suggest to have a custom builder factory:
DocumentBuilderFactory builderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
builderFactory.setXIncludeAware(False);
builderFactory.setExpandEntityReferences(False);
builderFactory.setFeature(XMLConstants.FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING, True);
# either
builderFactory.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/disallow-doctype-decl", True);
# or if you need DTDs
builderFactory.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities", False);
builderFactory.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities", False);
builderFactory.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-external-dtd", False);
builderFactory.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-dtd-grammar", False);
TODO
* DOM: Use xml.dom.xmlbuilder options for entity handling
* SAX: take feature_external_ges and feature_external_pes (?) into
account
* test experimental monkey patching of stdlib modules
* improve documentation
License
Copyright (c) 2013-2023 by Christian Heimes
Licensed to PSF under a Contributor Agreement.
See https://www.python.org/psf/license for licensing details.
Acknowledgements
Brett Cannon (Python Core developer)
review and code cleanup
Antoine Pitrou (Python Core developer)
code review
Aaron Patterson, Ben Murphy and Michael Koziarski (Ruby community)
Many thanks to Aaron, Ben and Michael from the Ruby community for
their report and assistance.
Thierry Carrez (OpenStack)
Many thanks to Thierry for his report to the Python Security Response
Team on behalf of the OpenStack security team.
Carl Meyer (Django)
Many thanks to Carl for his report to PSRT on behalf of the Django
security team.
Daniel Veillard (libxml2)
Many thanks to Daniel for his insight and assistance with libxml2.
semantics GmbH (https://www.semantics.de/)
Many thanks to my employer semantics for letting me work on the issue
during working hours as part of semantics's open source initiative.
References
* XML DoS and Defenses (MSDN)
* Billion Laughs on Wikipedia
* ZIP bomb on Wikipedia
* Configure SAX parsers for secure processing
* Testing for XML Injection
Changelog
defusedxml 0.8.0
Release date: 2023
* Fix testing without lxml
* Test on 3.13-dev and PyPy 3.9
defusedxml 0.8.0rc2
Release date: 29-Sep-2023
* Silence deprecation warning in defuse_stdlib.
* Update lxml safety information
defusedxml 0.8.0rc1
Release date: 26-Sep-2023
* Drop support for Python 2.7, 3.4, and 3.5.
* Test on 3.10, 3.11, and 3.12.
* Add defusedxml.ElementTree.fromstringlist()
* Update vulnerabilities and features table in README.
* Pending removal The defusedxml.lxml module has been unmaintained
and deprecated since 2019. The module will be removed in the next
version.
* Pending removal The defusedxml.cElementTree will be removed in
the next version. Please use defusedxml.ElementTree instead.
defusedxml 0.7.1
Release date: 08-Mar-2021
* Fix regression defusedxml.ElementTree.ParseError (#63) The
ParseError exception is now the same class object as
xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError again.
defusedxml 0.7.0
Release date: 4-Mar-2021
* No changes
defusedxml 0.7.0rc2
Release date: 12-Jan-2021
* Re-add and deprecate defusedxml.cElementTree
* Use GitHub Actions instead of TravisCI
* Restore ElementTree attribute of xml.etree module after patching
defusedxml 0.7.0rc1
Release date: 04-May-2020
* Add support for Python 3.9
* defusedxml.cElementTree is not available with Python 3.9.
* Python 2 is deprecate. Support for Python 2 will be removed in
0.8.0.
defusedxml 0.6.0
Release date: 17-Apr-2019
* Increase test coverage.
* Add badges to README.
defusedxml 0.6.0rc1
Release date: 14-Apr-2019
* Test on Python 3.7 stable and 3.8-dev
* Drop support for Python 3.4
* No longer pass html argument to XMLParse. It has been deprecated
and ignored for a long time. The DefusedXMLParser still takes a
html argument. A deprecation warning is issued when the argument
is False and a TypeError when it's True.
* defusedxml now fails early when pyexpat stdlib module is not
available or broken.
* defusedxml.ElementTree.__all__ now lists ParseError as public
attribute.
* The defusedxml.ElementTree and defusedxml.cElementTree modules
had a typo and used XMLParse instead of XMLParser as an alias for
DefusedXMLParser. Both the old and fixed name are now available.
defusedxml 0.5.0
Release date: 07-Feb-2017
* No changes
defusedxml 0.5.0.rc1
Release date: 28-Jan-2017
* Add compatibility with Python 3.6
* Drop support for Python 2.6, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
* Fix lxml tests (XMLSyntaxError: Detected an entity reference
loop)
defusedxml 0.4.1
Release date: 28-Mar-2013
* Add more demo exploits, e.g. python_external.py and Xalan XSLT
demos.
* Improved documentation.
defusedxml 0.4
Release date: 25-Feb-2013
* As per http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q1/340 please REJECT
CVE-2013-0278, CVE-2013-0279 and CVE-2013-0280 and use
CVE-2013-1664, CVE-2013-1665 for OpenStack/etc.
* Add missing parser_list argument to sax.make_parser(). The
argument is ignored, though. (thanks to Florian Apolloner)
* Add demo exploit for external entity attack on Python's SAX
parser, XML-RPC and WebDAV.
defusedxml 0.3
Release date: 19-Feb-2013
* Improve documentation
defusedxml 0.2
Release date: 15-Feb-2013
* Rename ExternalEntitiesForbidden to ExternalReferenceForbidden
* Rename defusedxml.lxml.check_dtd() to check_docinfo()
* Unify argument names in callbacks
* Add arguments and formatted representation to exceptions
* Add forbid_external argument to all functions and classes
* More tests
* LOTS of documentation
* Add example code for other languages (Ruby, Perl, PHP) and
parsers (Genshi)
* Add protection against XML and gzip attacks to xmlrpclib
defusedxml 0.1
Release date: 08-Feb-2013
* Initial and internal release for PSRT review
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