GHSA-r3xg-rg9j-67fv: docling (CVE-2026-44018)

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
docling	PyPI	>=2.45.0, <2.91.0	2.91.0

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Docling versions 2.45.0 up to but not including 2.91.0 are affected. The METS-GBS backend's XML parsing and format detection lacked security controls, so a user who processes a malicious METS-GBS archive could have local files read, resources exhausted through zip bombs or unbounded extraction, or the application crashed. Upgrade to docling 2.91.0 or later. Avoid processing METS-GBS archives from untrusted sources.

Written 5 Nov 2026.

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
5.5	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CNA (GitHub_M)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0016, the 5th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

31 Oct 2026, 14:42 UTC First seen by agentprime
31 Oct 2026, 14:42 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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