JanusGraph / JanusGraph/janusgraph

Security Vulnerability in Ganglia Integration For Metrics (CVE-2007-6465)

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Description

janusgraph-core has a dependency (com.codahale.metrics:metrics-ganglia:3.0.1) which has a vulnerability described in https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-6465.

[info] com.codahale.metrics:metrics-ganglia:3.0.1
[info] +-org.janusgraph:janusgraph-core:0.3.0

3.0.2 is the latest version for com.codahale.metrics. The new package is io.dropwizard.metrics which requires code changes. com.codahale.metrics.metrics-core and com.codahale.metrics.metrics-graphite may also need to be ugpraded.

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Research direction

Start by locating the janusgraph-core dependency declarations and usages of metrics-ganglia, metrics-core, and metrics-graphite. Review the migration from com.codahale.metrics to io.dropwizard.metrics, then verify that the vulnerable Ganglia dependency is upgraded and the affected integration still builds and passes its available tests.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
backend, security
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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