diff --git a/src/pygef/broxml/parse_bore.py b/src/pygef/broxml/parse_bore.py
index 3a95b15e..320daef3 100644
--- a/src/pygef/broxml/parse_bore.py
+++ b/src/pygef/broxml/parse_bore.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 from pygef.bore import BoreData
 from pygef.broxml import resolvers
-from pygef.broxml.xml_parser import read_xml
+from pygef.broxml.xml_parser import BaseParser, read_xml
 
 # maps keyword argument to:
 # xpath: query passed to elementree.find
@@ -136,9 +136,9 @@
 
 def read_bore(file: io.BytesIO | Path | str) -> list[BoreData]:
     if isinstance(file, str) and not os.path.exists(file):
-        root = etree.fromstring(file).getroot()
+        root = etree.fromstring(file, parser=BaseParser).getroot()
     else:
-        root = etree.parse(file).getroot()
+        root = etree.parse(file, parser=BaseParser).getroot()
     match = re.compile(r"xsd/.*/(\d\.\d)")
     matched = match.search(root.nsmap["bhrgtcom"])
 
diff --git a/src/pygef/broxml/parse_cpt.py b/src/pygef/broxml/parse_cpt.py
index 0ccaaee6..3a674360 100644
--- a/src/pygef/broxml/parse_cpt.py
+++ b/src/pygef/broxml/parse_cpt.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 from lxml import etree
 
 from pygef.broxml import resolvers
-from pygef.broxml.xml_parser import read_xml
+from pygef.broxml.xml_parser import BaseParser, read_xml
 from pygef.cpt import CPTData
 
 # maps keyword argument to:
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@
 
 def read_cpt(file: io.BytesIO | Path | str) -> list[CPTData]:
     if isinstance(file, str) and not os.path.exists(file):
-        root = etree.fromstring(file).getroot()
+        root = etree.fromstring(file, parser=BaseParser).getroot()
     else:
-        root = etree.parse(file).getroot()
+        root = etree.parse(file, parser=BaseParser).getroot()
     return read_xml(root, CPTData, CPT_ATTRIBS, "dispatchDocument")
diff --git a/src/pygef/broxml/xml_parser.py b/src/pygef/broxml/xml_parser.py
index b06a7dff..07cc1448 100644
--- a/src/pygef/broxml/xml_parser.py
+++ b/src/pygef/broxml/xml_parser.py
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 
 T = TypeVar("T", CPTData, BoreData)
 
+BaseParser = etree.XMLParser(resolve_entities=False, dtd_validation=False)
+
 
 def read_xml(
     root: etree.Element,