[CASSANDRA-16528] Update Cassandra dependencies to fix security vulnerabilities

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.26, 3.11.12, 4.0.1
• Component/s: Build, Dependencies
• Bug Category: Security
• Severity: Low
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Discovered By: User Report
• Platform: All
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: LHX
• Created: 19/Mar/21 16:57
• Updated: 17/Feb/22 08:19
• Resolved: 03/Aug/21 21:31

Description

There are a couple of security vulnerabilities that show up in libraries that cassandra pulls in.

1. apache commons-collections v 3.2.1
2. apache commons-beanutils v 1.7.0

For number one, there is a well-known security vulnerability in apache commons-collection 3.2.1 (see https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/576313 and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-580). This is fixed/mitigated in commons-collections 3.2.2.

All current versions of cassandra (including 4.0beta4) pull in commons-collections 3.2.1 via apache-rat 0.10. Is it possible to upgrade apache-rat to version 0.12 in order to pull in the latest version of commons-collections? See https://github.com/apache/creadur-rat/commit/2380409fbcd02b418eceacfdc1e486bdbbca9632.

I made the below change in 3.0.24 src and recompiled without errors.

// code placeholder
diff --git a/cassandra/cassandra-3.0-src/build.xml b/cassandra/cassandra-3.0-src/build.xml
index 73c9889d81..ed236443d4 100644
--- a/cassandra/cassandra-3.0-src/build.xml
+++ b/cassandra/cassandra-3.0-src/build.xml
@@ -402,3 +402,3 @@
           <dependency groupId="org.reflections" artifactId="reflections" version="0.9.12" />
-          <dependency groupId="org.apache.rat" artifactId="apache-rat" version="0.10">
+          <dependency groupId="org.apache.rat" artifactId="apache-rat" version="0.12">
              <exclusion groupId="commons-lang" artifactId="commons-lang"/>
@@ -1605,3 +1605,3 @@
     <artifact:dependencies pathId="rat.classpath">
-      <dependency groupId="org.apache.rat" artifactId="apache-rat-tasks" version="0.6" />
+      <dependency groupId="org.apache.rat" artifactId="apache-rat-tasks" version="0.12" />
       <remoteRepository refid="central"/>

 

For number two, I was able to discern that beanutils is coming from hadoop-core which is version 1.0.3.  I believe this also is quite out of date and could be upgraded. 

Could someone take a look and see if these version upgrades are possible?

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