Update dependency lxml to v6.1.0 [SECURITY]

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
lxml (source, changelog)	==6.0.0 → ==6.1.0

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lxml: Default configuration of iterparse() and ETCompatXMLParser() allows XXE to local files

CVE-2026-41066 / GHSA-vfmq-68hx-4jfw

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Details

Impact

Using either of the two parsers in the default configuration (with resolve_entities=True) allows untrusted XML input to read local files.

Patches

lxml 6.1.0 changes the default to resolve_entities='internal', thus disallowing local file access by default.

Workarounds

Setting the resolve_entities option explicitly to resolve_entities='internal' or resolve_entities=False disables the local file access.

Resources

Original report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/2146291

The default option was changed to resolve_entities='internal' for the normal XML and HTML parsers in lxml 5.0. The default was not changed for iterparse() and ETCompatXMLParser() at the time. lxml 6.1 makes the safe option the default for all parsers.

Severity

• CVSS Score: 7.5 / 10 (High)
• Vector String: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

• https://github.com/lxml/lxml/security/advisories/GHSA-vfmq-68hx-4jfw
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/2146291
• https://github.com/lxml/lxml/releases/tag/lxml-6.1.0
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-41066
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vfmq-68hx-4jfw

This data is provided by the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).

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Release Notes

lxml/lxml (lxml)

v6.1.0

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This release fixes a possible external entity injection (XXE) vulnerability in
iterparse() and the ETCompatXMLParser.

Features added

• GH#486: The HTML ARIA accessibility attributes were added to the set of safe attributes
  in lxml.html.defs. This allows lxml_html_clean to pass them through.
  Patch by oomsveta.

• The default chunk size for reading from file-likes in iterparse() is now configurable
  with a new chunk_size argument.

Bugs fixed

• LP#2146291: The resolve_entities option was still set to True for
  iterparse and ETCompatXMLParser, allowing for external entity injection (XXE)
  when using these parsers without setting this option explicitly.
  The default was now changed to 'internal' only (as for the normal XML and HTML parsers
  since lxml 5.0).
  Issue found by Sihao Qiu as CVE-2026-41066.

v6.0.4

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Bugs fixed

• LP#2148019: Spurious MemoryError during namespace cleanup.

v6.0.3

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Bugs fixed

• Several out of memory error cases now raise MemoryError that were not handled before.

• Slicing with large step values (outside of +/- sys.maxsize) could trigger undefined C behaviour.

• LP#2125399: Some failing tests were fixed or disabled in PyPy.

• LP#2138421: Memory leak in error cases when setting the public_id or system_url of a document.

• Memory leak in case of a memory allocation failure when copying document subtrees.

• When mapping an XPath result to Python failed, the result memory could leak.

• When preparing an XSLT transform failed, the XSLT parameter memory could leak.

Other changes

• Built using Cython 3.2.4.

• Binary wheels use zlib 1.3.2.

v6.0.2

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Bugs fixed

• LP#2125278: Compilation with libxml2 2.15.0 failed.
  Original patch by Xi Ruoyao.

• Setting decompress=True in the parser had no effect in libxml2 2.15.

• Binary wheels on Linux and macOS use the library version libxml2 2.14.6.
  See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/releases/v2.14.6

• Test failures in libxml2 2.15.0 were fixed.

Other changes

• Binary wheels for Py3.9-3.11 on the riscv64 architecture were added.

• Error constants were updated to match libxml2 2.15.0.

• Built using Cython 3.1.4.

v6.0.1

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Bugs fixed

• LP#2116333: lxml.sax._getNsTag() could fail with an exception on malformed input.

• GH#467: Some test adaptations were made for libxml2 2.15.
  Patch by Nick Wellnhofer.

• LP2119510, GH#473: A Python compatibility test was fixed for Python 3.14+.
  Patch by Lumír Balhar.

• GH#471: Wheels for "riscv64" on recent Python versions were added.
  Patch by ffgan.

• GH#469: The wheel build no longer requires the wheel package unconditionally.
  Patch by Miro Hrončok.

• Binary wheels use the library version libxml2 2.14.5.
  See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/releases/v2.14.5

• Windows binary wheels continue to use a security patched library version libxml2 2.11.9.

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