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

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

  - c3p0 0.9.5.2 allows XXE in extractXmlConfigFromInputStream in
    com/mchange/v2/c3p0/cfg/C3P0ConfigXmlUtils.java during initialization. (CVE-2018-20433)

Update to version 0.9.5.4.

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

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.

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.

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	Type	Severity
422840	SCA: security update for com.mchange:c3p0 (GHSA-q485-j897-qc27)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	critical
422840	SCA: security update for com.mchange:c3p0 (GHSA-q485-j897-qc27)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	critical
125487	Fedora 30 : c3p0 (2019-cb14e234fc)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	critical
125486	Fedora 29 : c3p0 (2019-063672154a)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	critical
119941	Debian DLA-1621-1 : c3p0 security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	critical

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