diff --git a/boot/src/main/java/com/taobao/arthas/boot/DownloadUtils.java b/boot/src/main/java/com/taobao/arthas/boot/DownloadUtils.java
index beb47cc4c..298e4dd33 100644
--- a/boot/src/main/java/com/taobao/arthas/boot/DownloadUtils.java
+++ b/boot/src/main/java/com/taobao/arthas/boot/DownloadUtils.java
@@ -185,9 +185,18 @@ public class DownloadUtils {
      * @return
      * @throws Exception
      */
-    private static Document transformMavenMetaData(String mavenMetaData) throws Exception {
+    static Document transformMavenMetaData(String mavenMetaData) throws Exception {
         ByteArrayInputStream inputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(mavenMetaData.getBytes("UTF-8"));
         DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
+        //disable XXE before newDocumentBuilder
+        dbFactory.setFeature("http://javax.xml.XMLConstants/feature/secure-processing", true);
+        dbFactory.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/disallow-doctype-decl", true);
+        dbFactory.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities", false);
+        dbFactory.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities", false);
+        dbFactory.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-external-dtd", false);
+        dbFactory.setXIncludeAware(false);
+        dbFactory.setExpandEntityReferences(false);
+        //create doc builder
         DocumentBuilder dBuilder = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
         return dBuilder.parse(inputStream);
     }
diff --git a/boot/src/test/java/com/taobao/arthas/boot/DownloadUtilsTest.java b/boot/src/test/java/com/taobao/arthas/boot/DownloadUtilsTest.java
index 043becb88..d30e10632 100644
--- a/boot/src/test/java/com/taobao/arthas/boot/DownloadUtilsTest.java
+++ b/boot/src/test/java/com/taobao/arthas/boot/DownloadUtilsTest.java
@@ -9,18 +9,26 @@ import java.net.URL;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 
 import org.junit.Assert;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+
 import static com.taobao.arthas.boot.DownloadUtils.*;
 
 public class DownloadUtilsTest {
 
     @Test
     public void testReadMavenReleaseVersion() {
-        Assert.assertNull(readMavenReleaseVersion(""));
+        //check 'center' repo
+        String releaseVersion = readMavenReleaseVersion(readMavenMetaData("center", false));
+        Assert.assertNotNull(releaseVersion);
+        Assert.assertNotEquals("releaseVersion is empty", "", releaseVersion.trim());
+        //check 'aliyun' repo
+        String aliyunReleaseVersion = readMavenReleaseVersion(readMavenMetaData("aliyun", false));
+        Assert.assertEquals("releaseVersion is not match between repo 'center' and 'aliyun'", releaseVersion, aliyunReleaseVersion);
     }
 
     @Test
     public void testReadAllMavenVersion() {
-        Assert.assertEquals(new ArrayList<String>(), readAllMavenVersion(""));
+        Assert.assertNotEquals(new ArrayList<String>(), readAllMavenVersion(readMavenMetaData("center", false)));
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -35,4 +43,22 @@ public class DownloadUtilsTest {
         String url = "https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/taobao/arthas/arthas-packaging/maven-metadata.xml";
         Assert.assertEquals(IOUtils.toString(new URL(url).openStream()), readMavenMetaData("center", false));
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testXXE() throws Exception {
+        try {
+            //from https://blog.spoock.com/2018/10/23/java-xxe/
+            String playload = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n" +
+                    "<!DOCTYPE root [\n" +
+                    "        <!ENTITY xxe SYSTEM \"../NOTICE\">\n" +
+                    "        ]>\n" +
+                    "<evil>&xxe;</evil>";
+            Document document = transformMavenMetaData(playload);
+        } catch (org.xml.sax.SAXParseException e) {
+            String message = e.getMessage();
+            Assert.assertTrue("XXE is not disabled", message.contains("disallow-doctype-decl"));
+            return;
+        }
+        Assert.fail("XXE is not disabled");
+    }
 }