A few security problems were discovered in Geronimo in the last few months and weeks. Most of them were Geronimo-specific except one. Therefore, I think we should spend a little bit of our time to review our code and check for potential security problems. As the first step, I think we should identify components that make security decisions (e.g. LoginModules) or enable access to server management and control (e.g. MEJB) or any other components that might be important for sever security. Once we have a few components identified we can start the review. Besides finding and fixing the potential security problems during the review we must also ensure that we have decent tests for these components that cover a range of inputs. For each problem that we do discover, we must write a test case to make sure it never happens again. Basically, a problem is not fully addressed until we have a test for it.
For now, I created the following page where we can keep track of the components and the review: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GMOxDEV/Security+Review Feel free to update it in any way. Opinions? Ideas? Thoughts? Jarek
