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PJ Fanning commented on EMPIREDB-375: ------------------------------------- Thanks Rainer for the response. Would it be possible to drop the struts component from future releases of v2? CVE-2017-12611 is one of the most notorious security issues and to have ASF products still shipped with jars that have vulnerability does not feel great. > upgrade struts version > ---------------------- > > Key: EMPIREDB-375 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/EMPIREDB-375 > Project: Empire-DB > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: empire-db-2.5.2 > Reporter: PJ Fanning > Priority: Major > > [https://github.com/apache/empire-db/pull/8] > also v2.2.1 in > [https://github.com/apache/empire-db/blob/version2-legacy/pom.xml] > master branch no longer seems to have struts at all but is version 2 is still > being released - see > [https://lists.apache.org/thread/3fh7djnh62o24xzvbhcqwbnsc5nd8mkx] > struts v2.2.1 is from 2010 and has 4 CVEs open against it - > [https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.struts/struts2-core] > One of the struts CVEs is the one that led to the Equifax hack - > [https://www.synopsys.com/blogs/software-security/apache-struts-remote-code-execution-vulnerabilities/#:~:text=Apache%20published%20details%20of%20CVE,day%20Equifax%20announced%20the%20breach.&text=According%20to%20an%20Equifax%20statement,the%20attacker%20from%20mid%2DMay]. > -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.1#820001)