If you get to a point where you find something you think is highly likely a
valid vulnerability the best path forward is likely reaching out to private@
to figure out how to do a security release.

On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 4:42 PM Eric Richardson <ekrichard...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, since it is included in the jars then it
> is unclear whether it is used internally at least to me.
>
> I can substitute the jar in the distro to avoid the scanner from finding
> it but then it is unclear whether I could be breaking something or not.
> Given that 3.1.2 is the latest release, I guess you might expect that it
> would pass the scanners but I am not sure if that version spans 3.0.x and
> 3.1.x or not either.
>
> I can report findings in an issue where I am pretty darn sure it is a
> valid vulnerability if that is ok? That at least would raise the
> visibility.
>
> Will 3.2.x be Scala 2.13.x only or cross compiled with 2.12?
>
> I realize Spark is a beast so I just want to help if I can but also not
> create extra work if it is not useful for me or the Spark team/contributors.
>
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 3:43 PM Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Whether it matters really depends on whether the CVE affects Spark.
>> Sometimes it clearly could and so we'd try to back-port dependency updates
>> to active branches.
>> Sometimes it clearly doesn't and hey sometimes the dependency is updated
>> anyway for good measure (mostly to keep this off static analyzer reports)
>> but probably wouldn't backport.
>>
>> Jackson has been a persistent one but in this case Spark is already on
>> 2.12.x in master, and it wasn't clear last time I looked at those CVEs that
>> they can affect Spark itself. End user apps perhaps, but those apps can
>> supply their own Jackson.
>>
>> If someone had a legit view that this is potentially more serious I think
>> we could _probably backport that update, but Jackson can be a little bit
>> tricky with compatibility IIRC so would just bear some testing.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 5:27 PM Eric Richardson <ekrichard...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am working with Spark 3.1.2 and getting several vulnerabilities
>>> popping up. I am wondering if the Spark distros are scanned etc. and how
>>> people resolve these.
>>>
>>> For example. I am finding -
>>> https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25649
>>>
>>> This looks like it is fixed in 2.11.0 -
>>> https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/issues/2589 - but Spark
>>> supplies 2.10.0.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Eric
>>>
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