In mxGraphViewImageReader.java in mxGraph before 3.7.6, the SAXParserFactory instance in convert() is missing flags to prevent XML External Entity (XXE) attacks, as demonstrated by /ServerView.

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

  - In mxGraphViewImageReader.java in mxGraph before 3.7.6, the SAXParserFactory instance in convert() is     missing flags to prevent XML External Entity (XXE) attacks, as demonstrated by /ServerView.
    (CVE-2017-18197)

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:

  - In mxGraphViewImageReader.java in mxGraph before 3.7.6, the SAXParserFactory instance in convert() is
    missing flags to prevent XML External Entity (XXE) attacks, as demonstrated by /ServerView.
    (CVE-2017-18197)

Security fix for CVE-2017-18197

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.

This update for jgraphx fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

  - CVE-2017-18197: Fixed missing flags in SAXParserFactory     instance in convert() to prevent XML External Entity     (XXE) attacks (boo#1083413).

It was discovered that there was a potential XML External Entity (XXE) attack in libjgraphx-java, a diagramming library for Java applications.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in libjgraphx-java version 1.4.1.0-3+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libjgraphx-java packages.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
259359	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-18197	Nessus	Misc.	critical
434304	SCA: security update for mxgraph (GHSA-wvpv-8524-wg6x)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	critical
434304	SCA: security update for mxgraph (GHSA-wvpv-8524-wg6x)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	critical
109225	Fedora 26 : jgraphx (2018-b3f8bee2e0)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
109224	Fedora 27 : jgraphx (2018-b268b5bbb5)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
107183	openSUSE Security Update : jgraphx (openSUSE-2018-228)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
107118	Debian DLA-1299-1 : libjgraphx-java security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical

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