Bug 1550353 – CVE-2017-18197 jgraphx: XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in mxGraphViewImageReader.java:convert()

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Bug 1550353 - (CVE-2017-18197) CVE-2017-18197 jgraphx: XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in mxGraphViewImageReader.java:convert()

Summary:	CVE-2017-18197 jgraphx: XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in mxGraphVie...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2017-18197

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Depends On:	1550355 1550354 1553282 1553284
Blocks:	1550357
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Reported:	2018-02-28 23:30 EST by Sam Fowler
Modified:	2018-03-08 11:08 EST (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	jgraphx 3.7.6
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Description Sam Fowler 2018-02-28 23:30:34 EST

In jgraphx (mxGraph) before 3.7.6, the SAXParserFactory instance in mxGraphViewImageReader.java:convert() is missing flags to prevent XML External Entity (XXE) attacks.

Upstream Issue:

https://github.com/jgraph/mxgraph/issues/124

Upstream Commit:

https://bitbucket.org/jgraph/mxgraph2/commits/7d159ca3259b961cbb1c51b4ea42cb408c624ff1

Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-02-28 23:30:59 EST

Created jgraphx tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1550354]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1550355]

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