MEI2Volpiano is vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE), leading to a Denial of Service (DoS)

HIGH 7.5CVE-2022-37189 · GHSA-6xm7-3cc5-47f9 · PYSEC-2026-847 · Published 07/09/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-37189 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting mei2volpiano, mei2volpiano (ddmal).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.4%, higher than 73.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
mei2volpiano PyPI	`≤ 0.8.2`	No fix yet
mei2volpiano ddmal	`≤ 0.8.2`	No fix yet

Description

DDMAL MEI2Volpiano 0.8.2 is vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE), leading to a Denial of Service. This occurs due to the usage of the unsafe 'xml.etree' library to parse untrusted XML input.

NVD description

DDMAL MEI2Volpiano 0.8.2 is vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE), leading to a Denial of Service. This occurs due to the usage of the unsafe 'xml.etree' library to parse untrusted XML input.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-37189 · ADVISORY
docs.python.org/3/library/xml.html · WEB
DDMAL/MEI2Volpiano · WEB
DDMAL/MEI2Volpiano · WEB
pyup.io/vulnerabilities/CVE-2022-37189/50928 · WEB
DDMAL/MEI2Volpiano · Product
pyup.io/vulnerabilities/CVE-2022-37189/50928 · Third Party Advisory
pypi.org/project/mei2volpiano · PACKAGE
GitHub Advisory GHSA-6xm7-3cc5-47f9 · ADVISORY

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