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authorChristian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>2013-03-26 16:47:23 (GMT)
committerChristian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>2013-03-26 16:47:23 (GMT)
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Issue 17538: Document XML vulnerabilties
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@@ -21,6 +21,13 @@ supports writing XML-RPC client code; it handles all the details of translating
between conformable Python objects and XML on the wire.
+.. warning::
+
+ The :mod:`xmlrpc.client` module is not secure against maliciously
+ constructed data. If you need to parse untrusted or unauthenticated data see
+ :ref:`xml-vulnerabilities`.
+
+
.. class:: ServerProxy(uri, transport=None, encoding=None, verbose=False, \
allow_none=False, use_datetime=False, \
use_builtin_types=False)