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Piotr Karwasz commented on BATIK-1395:
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Hi Simon,
The library does not use {{XMLInputHandler}}, but it could improve your
hardening commit if you replace {{TransformerFactory.newInstance()}} with
{{XmlFactories.newTransformerFactory()}} without any additional configuration
needed.
The edge case I mentioned above is internally handled by returning a *wrapper*
of {{TransformerFactory.newInstance()}}, which replaces a {{StreamSource}}
argument (or {{SAXSource}} without an {{XMLReader}}) with a {{SAXSource}}
referencing a hardened {{XMLReader}}.
If you are wondering why you should replace 3 lines of code with a 40 KiB
third-party library (regardless whether it is maintained by me as a personal
project, Apache Commons or Xerces), I posed myself the same question when I
wrote the library. My pros list included:
* If you use the library all XXE/SSRF reports can be rejected as out-of-scope.
Hopefully reporters will stop sending reports altogether, since Batik will not
contain any {{TransformerFactory.newInstance()}} call (wishful thinking, I
know).
* It seems like a useful dependency for libraries, since these don't know how
they will be deployed and with which parser implementation. For example Android
does not even support {{FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING}}. This is not a problem for
{{XMLInputHandler}} and {{batik-svgbrowser}}, but Android support might be
useful in other Batik modules.
As I mentioned above, I made my case for the existence of such a library:
* To the Apache Commons PMC, which I am part of:
https://lists.apache.org/thread/5lrt4qgrfqv0dbzmwzmmqz18lf69lkfl
* To the Xerces PMC, where such a library might be a better fit:
https://lists.apache.org/thread/lxwny26689r1cbmmj27s6gdrqp64lgsy
Before investing too much time into this, I would appreciate your opinion on
whether this could be useful. Call it a market study among OSS project…
> Add secure processing to XMLInputHandler
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> Key: BATIK-1395
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BATIK-1395
> Project: Batik
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Simon Steiner
> Assignee: Simon Steiner
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: main
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> XMLInputHandler is currently not used unless you uncomment a setting in a
> services file
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