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(HCL AppScan) Fixed finding: "Potential External Entities (XXE) attack vector discovered" #5

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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions src/main/java/com/hcl/appscan/sdk/scanners/sast/xml/ModelWriter.java
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import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;
import javax.xml.XMLConstants;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
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*/
private void initTransformer() throws TransformerConfigurationException {
TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
factory.setAttribute(XMLConstants.ACCESS_EXTERNAL_DTD, "");
configureTransformerFactory(factory);
m_transformer = factory.newTransformer();
configureTransformer();
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*/
private void initDocumentBuilder() throws ParserConfigurationException {
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
factory.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities", false);
factory.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities", false);
configureDocumentBuilderFactory(factory);
m_builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
}
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