Hi Vincent, We at Workflow are also still using Cocoon 2.2 as part of our main product and are running it with Java 11 and Tomcat 9 on Windows and Linux OSes. In the past we did not see any major problem with cocoon which were not solvable. From a security perspective maybe the biggest thread was a directory traversal opportunity if you would use ResourceReader cocoon component in the wrong way allowing users to use the /.. in URL/request-parameters being forwarded to the path of the resource to be read in order to traverse the directory of the deployment.
Latest Cocoon 2.2 trunk is also compatible with Spring 4.x by the way. Cheers, Gabriel Gruber www.workflow.at Von: Vincent Neyt <vincent.n...@gmail.com> Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. Juli 2021 12:28 An: users@cocoon.apache.org Betreff: Re: using cocoon 2.1 in the long-term, security concerns Thank you very much Warrell, Cédric, Greg and Chris. I'm happy to hear that you believe Cocoon poses a very low security risk as long as Tomcat and Java are up to date, and that Cocoon should continue to work well with future versions of T & J as long as the dependency libraries in Cocoon are updated. (At least until Tomcat 9 is no longer supported.) best wishes, Vincent On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 6:35 PM Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net<mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net>> wrote: Vincent, On 7/19/21 08:03, Vincent Neyt wrote: > Hi Cocoon users, > > I'd like to ask your opinion on the long-term security risks of running > Cocoon on a server. The colleague responsible for the servers at my > university is inquiring if the software I'm using for my website is up > to date and is concerned that I'm using outdated software that could in > the future pose a security risk. > > I'm using cocoon 2.1.11, which I could probably upgrade to 2.1.13 > without many problems. But I'm concerned about the long-term, and > wondering if it would perhaps be better to reprogram the website I've > been working on for 10 years into eXist DB (which would be a huge time > investment). I like cocoon very much and would love to continue using it > if it's possible. > > I'm curious to hear your thoughts about using Cocoon 2.1 for the long > term: will it still work well inside future versions of servlet > containers like Tomcat? What about the java dependencies? And will > cocoon 2.1 continue to put out updates when security risks are identified? I, like you, have been running Cocoon 2.1.x for years and would like to continue to rely on it for some important functions at $work. I don't see any reason it wouldn't run on current and future Tomcat versions. There are a few "current" versions of Tomcat, and the only one I would expect to have some issues would be the Tomcat 10.x series, which implement the "Jakarta EE" specifications instead of the "Java EE" specifications. For the most part, these specifications are simply package-renamed versions of the original Java EE specs. So, for example, javax.servlet.whatever becomes jakarta.servlet.whatever and so on. Tomcat has a migration tool which can migrate a binary web application (e.g. WAR file) from Java EE to Jakarta EE. It would be good to know if that tool works on a webapp which is Cocoon itself and/or Cocoon-bundled-with-your-application. I'm a Tomcat committer and if there are any problems, we could work together to make sure Cocoon has plenty of life left in it. With the semi-recent release of Cocoon 2.2, are there members of the community who would be interested in converting the project into a Jakarta EE-based project? There is no particular rush, and most of the conversion can be done essentially with a single sed script. But working that into the build process so you can say "build me a Java EE-based Cocoon" versus "build me a Jakarta EE-based Cocoon" would be really beneficial moving into the future. [As a Cocoon user, I'd love to know what is necessary to upgrade from Cocoon 2.1 to 2.2. We have an ant-based build process for our application which starts with a pre-built cocoon.war and customizes it with everything we need. So if e.g. Maven can build Cocoon into a WAR file, I might be all set.] -chris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org<mailto:users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@cocoon.apache.org<mailto:users-h...@cocoon.apache.org>
