On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:37 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> Hi,
>
> We have a customer that's concerned about a reported vulnerability with
> commons-collections.
>
> The collections jar (I believe) is a runtime dependency for the ApacheDS
> api. The binary api download includes it among others and we've always just
> shipped the entire kit.
>
>
>
> If the URL doesn't come through, the JIRA is COLLECTIONS-580<
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-580>
>
>   https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-580
>
> Our use of the ApacheDS api is not open to external calls such as web
> services, REST end points, etc.
> So I'm not completely understanding the risks related to this issue if
> any. Can someone chime in on what the actual exposures might be?
>
none, ApacheDS doesn't use commons-collections for de/serialization and
additionally there are no
external endpoints from which ApacheDS reads serialized objects.

>
> Thanks, Carlo Accorsi
>
>


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