Re: commons-fileupload dependency and CVE

2021-07-11 Thread Mark Thomas
On 10/07/2021 00:04, Matt Sicker wrote: Snyk looks like they have something like that in early access. I’ve seen a similar feature before in Whitesource, though it was fairly clunky. Then there’s the CodeQL queries on GitHub/LGTM which can find effective usage fairly well. It was bugging me I c

Re: commons-fileupload dependency and CVE

2021-07-09 Thread Ralph Goers
Sorry, I hadn’t seen this response. Best practice is to include every dependency your application uses directly or transitively in the project’s parent pom.xml. That way you control the version of everything and aren’t dependent on other people’s stuff being upgraded. Ralph > On Jul 9, 2021

Re: commons-fileupload dependency and CVE

2021-07-09 Thread Ralph Goers
FWIW, Libraries generally are compatible with newer versions for their dependencies, so long as the major version number doesn’t change. So you can mitigate this yourself by updating your application to use Commons IO 2.7 or later. Ralph > On Jul 9, 2021, at 4:11 AM, Daniel Wille wrote: >

Re: commons-fileupload dependency and CVE

2021-07-09 Thread Matt Sicker
Snyk looks like they have something like that in early access. I’ve seen a similar feature before in Whitesource, though it was fairly clunky. Then there’s the CodeQL queries on GitHub/LGTM which can find effective usage fairly well. On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 11:54 Mark Thomas wrote: > On 09/07/202

Re: commons-fileupload dependency and CVE

2021-07-09 Thread Mark Thomas
On 09/07/2021 15:49, Daniel Wille wrote: That is good to know, and I appreciate that info. I know that making updates to libraries for reasons like this is frowned upon by developers whose time is better spent fixing actual problems. It does mean however that many users will be in a situation wh

Re: commons-fileupload dependency and CVE

2021-07-09 Thread Daniel Wille
That is good to know, and I appreciate that info. I know that making updates to libraries for reasons like this is frowned upon by developers whose time is better spent fixing actual problems. It does mean however that many users will be in a situation where a corporate tool will detect the CVE, r

Re: commons-fileupload dependency and CVE

2021-07-09 Thread Mark Thomas
On 09/07/2021 15:11, Daniel Wille wrote: Hi all, I recently noted that commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload:1.4 has a dependency on commons-io:commons-io:2.2, which has a CVE (CVE-2021-29425). This could be mitigated by simply updating the dependency version to 2.7 or later. Would it be possibl

commons-fileupload dependency and CVE

2021-07-09 Thread Daniel Wille
Hi all, I recently noted that commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload:1.4 has a dependency on commons-io:commons-io:2.2, which has a CVE (CVE-2021-29425). This could be mitigated by simply updating the dependency version to 2.7 or later. Would it be possible to publish a newer version of commons-fil