diff --git a/authentik/lib/xml.py b/authentik/lib/xml.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6ce5f0cde
--- /dev/null
+++ b/authentik/lib/xml.py
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+"""XML Utilities"""
+from lxml.etree import XMLParser, fromstring  # nosec
+
+
+def get_lxml_parser():
+    """Get XML parser"""
+    return XMLParser(resolve_entities=False)
+
+
+def lxml_from_string(text: str):
+    """Wrapper around fromstring"""
+    return fromstring(text, parser=get_lxml_parser())
diff --git a/authentik/providers/saml/processors/request_parser.py b/authentik/providers/saml/processors/request_parser.py
index 2e8875795..1dc596412 100644
--- a/authentik/providers/saml/processors/request_parser.py
+++ b/authentik/providers/saml/processors/request_parser.py
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ from xml.etree.ElementTree import ParseError  # nosec
 
 import xmlsec
 from defusedxml import ElementTree
-from lxml import etree  # nosec
 from structlog.stdlib import get_logger
 
+from authentik.lib.xml import lxml_from_string
 from authentik.providers.saml.exceptions import CannotHandleAssertion
 from authentik.providers.saml.models import SAMLProvider
 from authentik.providers.saml.utils.encoding import decode_base64_and_inflate
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ class AuthNRequestParser:
 
         verifier = self.provider.verification_kp
 
-        root = etree.fromstring(decoded_xml)  # nosec
+        root = lxml_from_string(decoded_xml)
         xmlsec.tree.add_ids(root, ["ID"])
         signature_nodes = root.xpath("/samlp:AuthnRequest/ds:Signature", namespaces=NS_MAP)
         # No signatures, no verifier configured -> decode xml directly
diff --git a/authentik/providers/saml/tests/test_schema.py b/authentik/providers/saml/tests/test_schema.py
index 9fbe7f869..ecdec2c6e 100644
--- a/authentik/providers/saml/tests/test_schema.py
+++ b/authentik/providers/saml/tests/test_schema.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ from lxml import etree  # nosec
 
 from authentik.core.tests.utils import create_test_cert, create_test_flow
 from authentik.lib.tests.utils import get_request
+from authentik.lib.xml import lxml_from_string
 from authentik.managed.manager import ObjectManager
 from authentik.providers.saml.models import SAMLPropertyMapping, SAMLProvider
 from authentik.providers.saml.processors.assertion import AssertionProcessor
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ class TestSchema(TestCase):
         request_proc = RequestProcessor(self.source, http_request, "test_state")
         request = request_proc.build_auth_n()
 
-        metadata = etree.fromstring(request)  # nosec
+        metadata = lxml_from_string(request)
 
         schema = etree.XMLSchema(etree.parse("xml/saml-schema-protocol-2.0.xsd"))  # nosec
         self.assertTrue(schema.validate(metadata))
@@ -65,7 +66,7 @@ class TestSchema(TestCase):
         response_proc = AssertionProcessor(self.provider, http_request, parsed_request)
         response = response_proc.build_response()
 
-        metadata = etree.fromstring(response)  # nosec
+        metadata = lxml_from_string(response)
 
         schema = etree.XMLSchema(etree.parse("xml/saml-schema-protocol-2.0.xsd"))
         self.assertTrue(schema.validate(metadata))
diff --git a/authentik/sources/saml/tests/test_metadata.py b/authentik/sources/saml/tests/test_metadata.py
index 1f2034f40..9876aaa0d 100644
--- a/authentik/sources/saml/tests/test_metadata.py
+++ b/authentik/sources/saml/tests/test_metadata.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ from django.test import RequestFactory, TestCase
 from lxml import etree  # nosec
 
 from authentik.core.tests.utils import create_test_cert, create_test_flow
+from authentik.lib.xml import lxml_from_string
 from authentik.sources.saml.models import SAMLSource
 from authentik.sources.saml.processors.metadata import MetadataProcessor
 
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ class TestMetadataProcessor(TestCase):
         )
         request = self.factory.get("/")
         xml = MetadataProcessor(source, request).build_entity_descriptor()
-        metadata = etree.fromstring(xml)  # nosec
+        metadata = lxml_from_string(xml)
 
         schema = etree.XMLSchema(etree.parse("xml/saml-schema-metadata-2.0.xsd"))  # nosec
         self.assertTrue(schema.validate(metadata))
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index dccde20f7..39ea52ea3 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -55,13 +55,11 @@ show_missing = true
 [tool.pylint.master]
 disable = [
   "arguments-differ",
-  "no-self-use",
   "fixme",
   "locally-disabled",
   "too-many-ancestors",
   "too-few-public-methods",
   "import-outside-toplevel",
-  "bad-continuation",
   "signature-differs",
   "similarities",
   "cyclic-import",