[AXIS2-5993] Upgrade logging to log4j v2.x

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.9
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.0
• Component/s: client-api
• Environment: Tomcat
• Flags: Important
• External issue URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17571
• Assignee: Robert Lazarski
• Reporter: Gregory Knott
• Created: 19/Nov/20 05:00
• Updated: 24/Dec/20 15:20
• Resolved: 03/Dec/20 19:22

Description

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17571

This vulnerability prompts us to upgrade to a v2 version of log4j since all v1 versions are end of support. However all versions of axis2 still use v1 log4j.

If axis2 is not updated, then we will need to move to another web service container.