Veracode XML External Entity Reference (XXE) unmarshaling org.w3c.dom.Element

I am getting an XML External Entity Reference (XXE) vulnerability from the code scan audit(Veracode) while unmarshaling an Element.

    public static <T> T unMarshal(org.w3c.dom.Element content, Class<T> clazz) throws JAXBException {
    JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(clazz);
    Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jaxbContext.createUnmarshaller();
    return (T) unmarshaller.unmarshal(content, clazz).getValue();
}

How can I fix Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE') in the above code ?

According to your example you can try this code:

public static <T> T unMarshal(org.w3c.dom.Element content, Class<T> clazz) throws JAXBException, XMLStreamException {
  JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(clazz);
  Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jaxbContext.createUnmarshaller();

  XMLInputFactory xmlif = XMLInputFactory.newFactory();
  xmlif.setProperty(XMLInputFactory.IS_SUPPORTING_EXTERNAL_ENTITIES, false);
  xmlif.setProperty(XMLInputFactory.SUPPORT_DTD, false);
  XMLStreamReader xsr = xmlif.createXMLStreamReader(content);

  return (T) unmarshaller.unmarshal(xsr, clazz).getValue();
}

I think that above solution can resolves an issue related to (CWE 611) XML External Entity Reference