High
Security advisory
requests-xml v0.2.3 was discovered to contain an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted XML file.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-26708
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
requests-xml v0.2.3 was discovered to contain an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted XML file.
osv:CVE-2020-26708
Complete source record
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