What is CVE-2019-15160?

CVE-2019-15160 is a high-severity vulnerability in Kbrw Sweet XML, classified under Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs (XML Entity Expansion). CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-08-19.

How severe is CVE-2019-15160?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

XXE in Kbrw Sweet XML

CVE-2019-15160

The SweetXml (aka sweet_xml) package through 0.6.6 for Erlang and Elixir allows attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via an XML entity expansion attack with an inline DTD.

Published 2019-08-19 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.017 (76.4th percentile), scored 2026-10-19.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 76th percentile — 76.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Kbrw Sweet XML

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-776 — Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs (XML Entity Expansion)

References

hex.pm/packages/sweet_xml (Third Party Advisory)
github.com/kbrw/sweet_xml/issues/71 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-15160?: CVE-2019-15160 is a high-severity vulnerability in Kbrw Sweet XML, classified under Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs (XML Entity Expansion). CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-08-19.
How severe is CVE-2019-15160?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.