Hi,

Am Donnerstag, dem 23.03.2023 um 09:53 -0400 schrieb William Shackleford:
> Netbeans appears to include log4j even the most recent version.
> 
> in
> 
> netbeans/ide/modules/ext/log4j-1.2.15.jar
> 
> Our IT security group has flagged it and requires that it be removed even
> though as it is version 1 it is not vulnerable to the most famous issue as
> apparently there were other issues  and it is no longer supported.
> 
> What are the consequences of removing it?

If I saw it correctly, log4j is used by the html validator only.
Anything that calls into that might break. That also might happen
indirectly.

> 
> How would I go about committing  or just suggestion a change to have it
> removed from future versions

Have a look at the html.parser and html.validator modules. Both most
probably need to be updated or might be patched not to carry log4j.
Patching html.validator might be the quickest way, updates to current
version might be better in the long run.

The hard

> to avoid triggering our security team from
> telling everyone to delete it and maybe all of netbeans with it?

The alternative is: Solve organisational problems inside the
organisation. If the security team indeed has the misconception that
"has log4j === is vulnerable", than you might need a new security team.

My status on the CVEs:

- CVE-2019-17571: SocketServer needs to be explicitly loaded, we are not 
vulnerable
- CVE-2020-9488: We don't use the SMTPAppender, we are not vulnerable
- CVE-2021-4104: We don't use the JMSAppender, we are not vulnerabe
- CVE-2022-23302: We don't use the JMSSink, we are not vulnerable
- CVE-2022-23305: We don't use the JDBCAppender, we are not vulnerable
- CVE-2022-23307: Apache Chainsaw is not used

Greetings

Matthias

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