[CASSANDRA-16740] Remediate Cassandra 3.11.10 JAR dependency vulnerability - ch.qos.logback_logback-core

• 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 14:27
• 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 ch.qos.logback_logback-core version 1.1.3 has the following vulnerability and is fixed in version 1.2.0. Recommendation is to upgrade to version 1.2.3 or greater.

 

id	cvss	desc	link	packageName	packageVersion	severity	status	vecStr
CVE-2017-5929	9.8	QOS.ch Logback before 1.2.0 has a serialization vulnerability affecting the SocketServer and ServerSocketReceiver components.	https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2017-5929	ch.qos.logback_logback-core	1.1.3	critical	fixed in 1.2.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

• See https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/ch.qos.logback/logback-core/1.2.3 

Issue Links

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