Switch to internal defused XML implementation

README.md

@@ -2274,7 +2274,6 @@ force-enable features with known issues on your OS/env  by setting any of the fo
 |-----------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 | `PRTY_FORCE_MP`             | force-enable multiprocessing (real multithreading) on MacOS and other broken platforms                                                                              |
 | `PRTY_FORCE_MAGIC`          | use [magic](https://pypi.org/project/python-magic/) on Windows (you will segfault)                                                                                  |
-| `PRTY_ALLOW_INSECURE_EXPAT` | allow using expat versions (bundled with python) that are vulnerable to xml attacks, [see the python docs](https://docs.python.org/3/library/xml.html#xml-security) |
 
 
 # packages

copyparty/dxml.py

@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ DXMLParser = _DXMLParser
 
 
 def parse_xml(txt: str) -> ET.Element:
+    """
+    Parse XML into an xml.etree.ElementTree.Element while defusing some unsafe parts.
+    """
     parser = DXMLParser()
     parser.feed(txt)
     return parser.close()  # type: ignore

copyparty/mtag.py

@@ -60,23 +60,8 @@ def have_ff(scmd: str) -> bool:
     else:
         return bool(shutil.which(scmd))
 
-def expat_is_secure():
-    """
-    From the python xml docs:
-
-    An attacker can abuse XML features to carry out denial of service attacks, access local files, generate network connections to other machines, or circumvent firewalls.
-    Expat versions lower that 2.6.0 may be vulnerable to “billion laughs”, “quadratic blowup” and “large tokens”. Python may be vulnerable if it uses such older versions of Expat as a system-provided library. Check pyexpat.EXPAT_VERSION.
-    """
-    import pyexpat
-    # expat_2.7.1
-    if len(pyexpat.EXPAT_VERSION) < 11:
-        return False
-    major, minor, patch = (int(x) for x in pyexpat.EXPAT_VERSION[6:].split("."))
-    return major > 2 or major == 2 and minor >= 6
-
 HAVE_FFMPEG = not os.environ.get("PRTY_NO_FFMPEG") and have_ff("ffmpeg")
 HAVE_FFPROBE = not os.environ.get("PRTY_NO_FFPROBE") and have_ff("ffprobe")
-HAVE_SECURE_EXPAT = os.environ.get("PRTY_ALLOW_INSECURE_EXPAT") or expat_is_secure()
 
 CBZ_PICS = set("png jpg jpeg gif bmp tga tif tiff webp avif".split())
 CBZ_01 = re.compile(r"(^|[^0-9v])0+[01]\b")
@@ -191,7 +176,6 @@ def au_unpk(
             fi = zf.open(using)
 
         elif pk == "epub":
-            if HAVE_SECURE_EXPAT:
             fi = get_cover_from_epub(log, abspath)
 
         else:
@@ -385,7 +369,7 @@ def parse_ffprobe(txt: str) -> tuple[dict[str, tuple[int, Any]], dict[str, list[
 
 def get_cover_from_epub(log: "NamedLogger", abspath: str) -> IO[bytes] | None:
     import zipfile
-    import xml.etree.ElementTree as ElTree
+    from .dxml import parse_xml
     try:
         from urlparse import urljoin  # Python2
     except ImportError:
@@ -394,21 +378,21 @@ def get_cover_from_epub(log: "NamedLogger", abspath: str) -> IO[bytes] | None:
     with zipfile.ZipFile(abspath, "r") as z:
         # First open the container file to find the package document (.opf file)
         try:
-            container_root = ElTree.parse(z.open("META-INF/container.xml"))
+            container_root = parse_xml(z.read("META-INF/container.xml").decode())
         except KeyError:
             log(f"epub: no container file found in {abspath}")
             return None
 
         # https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-33/#sec-container.xml-rootfile-elem
-        container_namesapce = {"": "urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:container"}
+        container_namespace = {"": "urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:container"}
         # One file could contain multiple package documents, default to the first one
         rootfile_path = container_root\
-            .find("./rootfiles/rootfile", container_namesapce)\
+            .find("./rootfiles/rootfile", container_namespace)\
             .get("full-path")
 
         # Then open the first package document to find the path of the cover image
         try:
-            package_root = ElTree.parse(z.open(rootfile_path))
+            package_root = parse_xml(z.read(rootfile_path).decode())
         except KeyError:
             log(f"epub: no package document found in {abspath}")
             return None
@@ -489,9 +473,6 @@ class MTag(object):
             self.log(msg.format(or_ffprobe, " " * 37, pyname), c=1)
             return
 
-        if not HAVE_SECURE_EXPAT:
-            self.log("expat version is missing critical security fixes; epub thumbnails will not be available", c=3)
-
         # https://picard-docs.musicbrainz.org/downloads/MusicBrainz_Picard_Tag_Map.html
         tagmap = {
             "album": ["album", "talb", "\u00a9alb", "original-album", "toal"],