XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in XmlMapper in the Data format extension for Jackson (aka jackson-dataformat-xml) allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in XmlMapper in the Data format extension for Jackson (aka     jackson-dataformat-xml) allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors. (CVE-2016-3720)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in XmlMapper in the Data format extension for Jackson (aka
    jackson-dataformat-xml) allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors. (CVE-2016-3720)

Security fix for CVE-2016-3720

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Security fix for CVE-2016-3720

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
254644	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-3720	Nessus	Misc.	critical
422326	SCA: security update for com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-xml (GHSA-hmq6-frv3-4727)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	critical
422326	SCA: security update for com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-xml (GHSA-hmq6-frv3-4727)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	critical
92202	Fedora 23 : jackson-dataformat-xml (2016-f2e2b178ea)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
92177	Fedora 22 : jackson-dataformat-xml (2016-d708261ce2)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
91057	Fedora 24 : jackson-dataformat-xml-2.6.3-3.fc24 (2016-13b4cae9df)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical

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