Commons-Compress CVEs fixed in v1.26.0

PJ Fanning <[email protected]> Mon, 25 Mar 2024 12:50:27 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.poi.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi everyone,

We are getting a few emails coming in about the recent CVE reports in commons-compress (v1.26.0 release) [1].
poi-ooxml uses commons-compress for reading and writing zip format data and most modern Microsoft data formats need zip support.
We have tested with the latest commons-compress jars and they work well with POI.
If you are using a recent POI release (5.2.x) and want to just upgrade the commons-compress the jars yourself - then this should work ok. Give it a test before going into production.
We currently have no plans to do a POI release - especially since users can just upgrade the commons-compress jar themselves.

Regards,
PJ

[1] https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.commons/commons-compress/1.25.0