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authorChristian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>2013-03-26 17:48:28 +0100
committerChristian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>2013-03-26 17:48:28 +0100
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Issue 17538: Document XML vulnerabilties
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This module will use a fast implementation whenever available.
The :mod:`xml.etree.cElementTree` module is deprecated.
+
+.. warning::
+
+ The :mod:`xml.etree.ElementTree` module is not secure against
+ maliciously constructed data. If you need to parse untrusted or
+ unauthenticated data see :ref:`xml-vulnerabilities`.
+
Tutorial
--------