XML External Entity Prevention Cheat Sheet

OWASP Foundation. XML External Entity Prevention Cheat Sheet. OWASP Cheat Sheet Series.

Type

Standard

Intellectual base

Reference work

Link

https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/XML_External_Entity_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html

Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Mechanisms

• XML Schema and Parser
  • Another sends a "billion laughs"

    This sourceIdentifies Billion Laughs as an XML entity-expansion denial-of-service attack capable of exhausting memory.

Verification

Does it exist? Not checked yet. This entry carries no identifier to resolve. It was extracted from the citation as written in the article, normalized, and deduplicated against the rest of the registry.

Does it back the claim? Not recorded. The single citation of this work carries no recorded support check.

Support is checked per citation rather than per work — the same source can be cited soundly in one article and wrongly in another. Per-citation recording began recently, so a citation with no recorded check is a gap in the record rather than evidence it went unchecked.

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