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How to disable XML External Entity(XEE) processing in SAXBuilder which using com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.SAXParser

Here is my snippet:

public static SAXBuilder createBuilder(@NotNull final String schemaPath)  {


     final SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder("com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.SAXParser", true);
    builder.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema", true);
    builder.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-external-dtd", false);


    builder.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/disallow-doctype-decl",true);
    builder.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities", false);
    builder.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities", false);
    builder.setExpandEntities(false);
    builder.setProperty("http://apache.org/xml/properties/schema/external-noNamespaceSchemaLocation", schemaPath);
    builder.setEntityResolver(getEntityResolver());
    return builder;
}

I have spent some time searching, but there's not much left out there

Solution

  • I identified the root cause of this problem. It was because of processContents="lax" attribute in my xsd