[QPID-8279] [Broker-J] Upgrade Jackson dependencies

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: qpid-java-broker-7.0.3, qpid-java-broker-7.0.2, qpid-java-broker-7.0.0, qpid-java-broker-7.0.1, qpid-java-broker-7.1.0, qpid-java-broker-7.0.4, qpid-java-broker-7.0.5, qpid-java-broker-7.0.6
• Fix Version/s: qpid-java-broker-7.0.7, qpid-java-broker-7.1.1
• Component/s: Broker-J
• Assignee: Alex Rudyy
• Reporter: Alex Rudyy
• Created: 15/Feb/19 16:35
• Updated: 19/Feb/20 10:37
• Resolved: 18/Feb/19 11:36

Description

The CVE vulnerabilities 14718, CVE-2018-14719, CVE-2018-14720, CVE-2018-14721 have been reported against jackson-databind library 2.x versions below 2.9.7.

Whilst Apache Qpid Broker-J distributions include a version of jackson-databind that is affected by the vulnerability, it is believed that Apache Qpid Broker-J product itself is NOT AFFECTED by this vulnerability. This is because Broker-J code never enables Jackson's
polymorphic deserialisation features: specifically it never makes calls to ObjectMapper#enableDefaultTyping(...) nor does it use TypeResolverBuilders or annotations that enable the feature.

Though Apache Qpid Broker-J is not affected by the vulnerabilities, this JIRA will upgrade the dependencies of Broker-J to versions of the jackson-databind dependencies that are not vulnerable:

• master (upgrade from 2.9.5 to 2.9.8)
• 7.1.x (upgrade from 2.9.5 to 2.9.8)
• 7.0.x (upgrade from 2.8.11.1 to 2.8.11.3)

Please note that no upgrade of jackson-databind dependencies will be done for 6.0.x and 6.1.x versions. The 6.0.x and 6.1.x brokers can be upgraded to 7.1.x.