Re: False Positive Vulnerabilities in el-api.jar from Official Apache Tomcat Distribution

Christopher Schultz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sathish,

On 11/6/25 4:17 AM, S Sathish S wrote:
> Issue Description:
> We are experiencing false positive vulnerability alerts when using el-api.jar from the official Apache Tomcat distribution (https://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-11/v11.0.10/bin/) and Maven repository (https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/tomcat/) with OWASP Dependency Checker.
> 
> However, the identical version of el-api.jar obtained from the javax.el repository (https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.el/el-api) produces no vulnerability alerts in the same OWASP Dependency Checker analysis.

Please provide the detection analysis from OWASP Dependency Checker. I'm 
looking for the "identifiers" that OWASP has used to identify your library.

For example, for commons-beanutils:

Identifiers

     pkg:maven/commons-beanutils/[email protected]  (Confidence:High)
     cpe:2.3:a:apache:commons_beanutils:1.11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 
(Confidence:Highest)


What does is show for el-api.jar?

-chris
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