CRITICAL9.1

PYSEC-2026-1324

ebookmeta XML External Entity vulnerability

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-1324 — ebookmeta: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'ebookmeta>=1.2.8'

Details

An XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in the `ebookmeta.get_metadata` function via lxml dependency allows attackers to access sensitive information or cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via crafted XML input.

Are you affected?

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Affected packages

PyPI/ebookmeta

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 1.2.8

Fixpip install --upgrade 'ebookmeta>=1.2.8'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-37388[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/dnkorpushov/ebookmeta/issues/16#issue-2317712335[WEB]
https://github.com/dnkorpushov/ebookmeta[PACKAGE]
https://pypi.org/project/ebookmeta[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hx54-pf28-7xch[ADVISORY]