diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index bb2fc0421b..1f808c2f37 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ paramiko
 pytest==8.3.4
 pytest-asyncio==0.25.0
 pytest-mock==3.14.0
+defusedxml==0.7.1
diff --git a/tests/end_to_end/utils/summary_helper.py b/tests/end_to_end/utils/summary_helper.py
index a832a281c7..25b29ad9fd 100644
--- a/tests/end_to_end/utils/summary_helper.py
+++ b/tests/end_to_end/utils/summary_helper.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Copyright 2020-2023 Intel Corporation
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
+from defusedxml.ElementTree import parse as defused_parse
 from lxml import etree
 import os
 from pathlib import Path
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
     print(f"Results XML file not found at {result_xml}. Exiting...")
     exit(1)
 
-tree = ET.parse(result_xml, parser=parser)
+tree = defused_parse(result_xml, parser=parser)
 
 # Get the root element
 testsuites = tree.getroot()