Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting docling package, versions [,2.74.0)
Threat Intelligence
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- published19 May 2026
- disclosed11 May 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 11 May 2026
NewCVE-2026-31247 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade docling to version 2.74.0 or higher.
Overview
docling is a SDK and CLI for parsing PDF, DOCX, HTML, and more, to a unified document representation for powering downstream workflows such as gen AI applications.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling through the etree.parse function. An attacker can cause excessive resource consumption and disrupt service availability by submitting a crafted XML file containing a nested entity expansion payload.