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authorChristian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>2013-03-26 16:53:05 (GMT)
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Issue 17538: Document XML vulnerabilties
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@@ -16,6 +16,14 @@ Simple API for XML (SAX) interface for Python. The package itself provides the
SAX exceptions and the convenience functions which will be most used by users of
the SAX API.
+
+.. warning::
+
+ The :mod:`xml.sax` module is not secure against maliciously
+ constructed data. If you need to parse untrusted or unauthenticated data see
+ :ref:`xml-vulnerabilities`.
+
+
The convenience functions are: