Upgrade maven 3.8 to use commons-lang3 >= 3.18.0 (CVE-2025-48924 GHSA-j288-q9x7-2f5v)
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Description
### Affected version
3.8.x
### Bug description
Please consider making the required changes to upgrade the `maven-3.8.x` branch to support commons-lang3 >= 3.18.0.
As of today, commons-lang3 is set to `3.8.1` in https://github.com/apache/maven/blob/maven-3.8.x/pom.xml#L54 which is affected by [CVE-2025-48924](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48924).
See also: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j288-q9x7-2f5v
thanks in advance.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Inspect the maven-3.8.x branch's pom.xml at the commons-lang3 declaration around line 54. Update the dependency to a version at least 3.18.0 to address CVE-2025-48924, then verify that the Maven 3.8.x build remains compatible.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- build-system, security
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100