Hi Harry,

Relevant, announced CVE's are listed here
https://solr.apache.org/security.html and that page links a wiki page where
false positives are usually listed.

-Gus

On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 1:31 PM Silverman, Harry <jsilver...@gpo.gov.invalid>
wrote:

> Thanks for your reply, and I understand.
>
> It is a separate department that is running the vulnerability scans and
> then reaching out to product owners for mitigation plans.  I will relay
> this info.
>
> It would help (me) if this info was presented on a public-facing solr
> webpage, but no worries.
>
> Thanks again,
> Jay
>
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> On 10/31/22 07:26, Silverman, Harry wrote:
> > I see SOLR-16443 is being addressed in version 9.
> >
> > Will this jackson-databind update also be applied to 8.11?
>
> In the issue, Kevin indicated that the CVEs are unlikely to affect Solr,
> and that our current stable branch for 9.x was being updated.  We regularly
> update our dependencies to keep them current.
>
> At this time, the change has not been backported to the 8.11 branch.
> Even if that happens, the problem is not severe enough to warrant a new
> 8.11.x release.
>
> I'm guessing that your motivation comes from running a vulnerability
> scanner and getting a notification about a vulnerability in the old Solr
> version.
>
> If you cannot just flag those reports as false positives, something you
> could try is finding all the jackson jars in Solr and replacing them with a
> version that has the fix.  To make sure that there are no issues with
> internal APIs, you would need to update ALL the jackson jars, not just
> those with the vulnerability.  Jackson has a very stable external API, so
> that upgrade will PROBABLY work.  I can't guarantee that, though.
>
> Thanks,
> Shawn
>
>

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