diff --git a/odoo/addons/base/models/assetsbundle.py b/odoo/addons/base/models/assetsbundle.py
index 55f23a4b9a4..86141a82a4c 100644
--- a/odoo/addons/base/models/assetsbundle.py
+++ b/odoo/addons/base/models/assetsbundle.py
@@ -898,8 +898,11 @@ class XMLAsset(WebAsset):
         except AssetError as e:
             return u"console.error(%s);" % json.dumps(to_text(e))
 
-        parser = etree.XMLParser(ns_clean=True, recover=True, remove_comments=True)
-        root = etree.parse(io.BytesIO(content.encode('utf-8')), parser=parser).getroot()
+        parser = etree.XMLParser(ns_clean=True, remove_comments=True, resolve_entities=False)
+        try:
+            root = etree.fromstring(content.encode('utf-8'), parser=parser)
+        except etree.XMLSyntaxError as e:
+            return f'<t t-name="parsing_error"><parsererror>Invalid XML template: {self.url} \n {e.msg} </parsererror></t>'
         if root.tag in ('templates', 'template'):
             return ''.join(etree.tostring(el, encoding='unicode') for el in root)
         return etree.tostring(root, encoding='unicode')
diff --git a/odoo/addons/test_assetsbundle/__manifest__.py b/odoo/addons/test_assetsbundle/__manifest__.py
index 1ab5561d25b..632291e2ef7 100644
--- a/odoo/addons/test_assetsbundle/__manifest__.py
+++ b/odoo/addons/test_assetsbundle/__manifest__.py
@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@
         'test_assetsbundle.lazy_test_component': [
             'test_assetsbundle/static/tests/lazy_test_component/**/*',
         ],
+        'test_assetsbundle.broken_xml': [
+            'test_assetsbundle/static/invalid_src/xml/invalid_xml.xml',
+        ],
     },
     'license': 'LGPL-3',
 }
diff --git a/odoo/addons/test_assetsbundle/static/invalid_src/xml/invalid_xml.xml b/odoo/addons/test_assetsbundle/static/invalid_src/xml/invalid_xml.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..51408a14070
--- /dev/null
+++ b/odoo/addons/test_assetsbundle/static/invalid_src/xml/invalid_xml.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<templates xml:space="preserve">
+  <t t-name="test_assetsvundle.invalid_xml">
+    <SomeComponent>content<SomeComponent/>
+  </t>
+</templates>
diff --git a/odoo/addons/test_assetsbundle/tests/test_assetsbundle.py b/odoo/addons/test_assetsbundle/tests/test_assetsbundle.py
index 64642924f14..754a71469bd 100644
--- a/odoo/addons/test_assetsbundle/tests/test_assetsbundle.py
+++ b/odoo/addons/test_assetsbundle/tests/test_assetsbundle.py
@@ -626,6 +626,24 @@ class TestJavascriptAssetsBundle(FileTouchable):
     </body>
 </html>"""))
 
+class TestXMLAssetsBundle(FileTouchable):
+
+    def _get_asset(self, bundle, rtl=False, debug_assets=False):
+        files, _ = self.env['ir.qweb']._get_asset_content(bundle)
+        return AssetsBundle(bundle, files, env=self.env, debug_assets=debug_assets, rtl=rtl)
+
+    def test_01_broken_xml(self):
+        """ Checks that a bundle don't try hard to parse broken xml, and returns a comprehensive
+        error message.
+        """
+        self.bundle = self._get_asset('test_assetsbundle.broken_xml')
+
+        # there shouldn't be any test_assetsvundle.invalid_xml template.
+        # there should be an parsing_error template with the parsing error message.
+        self.assertEqual(self.bundle.xml(),
+                         '<t t-name="parsing_error"><parsererror>Invalid XML template: /test_assetsbundle/static/invalid_src/xml/invalid_xml.xml \n Opening and ending tag mismatch: SomeComponent line 4 and t, line 5, column 7 </parsererror></t>',
+                         "the parsing error should be shown")
+
 
 @tagged('-at_install', 'post_install')
 class TestAssetsBundleInBrowser(HttpCase):