Security issue in dependency - CWE-674 (uncontrolled recursion)
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Description
Hi there,
Some scanning tools are reporting that commons-beanutils 1.9.4 uses a version of commons-collections (3.2.2) that's potentially vulnerable to stack overflow. More details here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-701
I tried updating the version of beanutils to beanutils2 2.0.0-M1, which uses collections 4.5.0-M3 where the issue has been fixed. It was a minor code change and the unit tests seem happy. I'll raise a PR and link to this issue shortly if that would help.
Many thanks,
James
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Research direction
Start by locating the dependency declaration for commons-beanutils 1.9.4 and the code changed by the attempted beanutils2 2.0.0-M1 update. Run the existing unit tests, then confirm the dependency resolves commons-collections 4.5.0-M3 and that the tests still pass.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- security
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100