On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 8:50 PM Julian Reschke <julian.resc...@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> To whom it may concern...
>
> Jackrabbit's RMI support has been essentially unmaintained for half a
> decade now, and also does not support JCR 2.0.
>
> We recently had to go into emergence mode due to vulnerabilities of
> components used by us when accessed over RMI (see
> https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-37895).
>
> In response to that, we have changed the default settings in our server
> and standalone bundles (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-4960),
> and have removed the use of the vulnerable component
> (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-4949).
>
> As next steps, I'd like to first formally deprecate jackrabbit-jcr-rmi
> (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-4973), and then later remove
> it altogether (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-4972). The
> deprecation would get backported to the stable maintenance branch
> (2.20.x), while the removal would only happen in the unstable branch for
> now.

+1 on both deprecating jackrabbit-jcr-rmi now and removing it later.

Thanks,

Woonsan

>
> Feedback appreciated (eiher here or in the tickets).
>
> Best regards, Julian
>
>

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