GMS-2021-72: Critical vulnerability in log4j may affect generated PEAR projects

Impact

UIMA PEAR projects that have been generated with the de.averbis.textanalysis:pear-archetype version 2.0.0 have a maven dependency with scope test to log4j 2.8.2 and might be affected by CVE-2021-44228.

Patches

  • The issue has been resolved in de.averbis.textanalysis:pear-archetype version 2.0.1. Please make sure to use de.averbis.textanalysis:pear-archetype version >= 2.0.1 for generating new PEAR projects.

  • Existing maven PEAR projects can be patched by manually upgrading to log4j >= 2.16.0 in pom.xml.

References

https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day/

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