c3p0 0.9.5.2 allows XXE in extractXmlConfigFromInputStream in com/mchange/v2/c3p0/cfg/C3P0ConfigXmlUtils.java during initialization.

Update to version 0.9.5.4.

Resolves CVE-2018-20433 and CVE-2019-5427.

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A XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability was discovered in c3p0, a library for JDBC connection pooling, that may be used to resolve information outside of the intended sphere of control.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.1.2-9+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your c3p0 packages.

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ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
125487	Fedora 30 : c3p0 (2019-cb14e234fc)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
125486	Fedora 29 : c3p0 (2019-063672154a)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
119941	Debian DLA-1621-1 : c3p0 security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical

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CVE-2018-20433

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