[CASSANDRA-16738] Remediate Cassandra 3.11.10 JAR dependency vulnerability - org.yaml_snakeyaml

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Triage Needed
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 3.11.x
• Component/s: Dependencies
• Platform: All
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Daniel Gomez
• Created: 14/Jun/21 14:09
• Updated: 28/Jun/21 19:07

Description

A JAR dependency is flagged in Cassandra 3.11.10 as having vulnerabilities that have been fixed in newer releases. The following is the Cassandra 3.11.10 source tree for their JAR dependencies: https://github.com/apache/cassandra/tree/181a4969290f1c756089b2993a638fe403bc1314/lib . 

JAR org.yaml_snakeyaml version 1.11 has the following vulnerability and is fixed in version 1.26. Recommendation is to upgrade to version 2.29 or greater.

 

id	cvss	desc	link	packageName	packageVersion	severity	status	vecStr
CVE-2017-18640	7.5	The Alias feature in SnakeYAML 1.18 allows entity expansion during a load operation, a related issue to CVE-2003-1564.	https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2017-18640	org.yaml_snakeyaml	1.11	high	fixed in 1.26	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

 

A possible fix strategy is to simply update the JAR to their newest version.

• See https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.yaml/snakeyaml/1.29

Issue Links

• is a clone of: CASSANDRA-16734 Remediate Cassandra 3.11.10 JAR dependency vulnerabilities