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

S Sathish S <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user
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Hi Chris/Team,
Please find the below identifier on OWASP Dependency Checker Tool report for Tomcat-el-api.jar and el-api.jar.
Tomcat-el-api.jar
Identifiers

  *   cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:6.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*<https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?form_type=Advanced&results_type=overview&search_type=all&cpe_vendor=cpe%3A%2F%3Aapache&cpe_product=cpe%3A%2F%3Aapache%3Atomcat&cpe_version=cpe%3A%2F%3Aapache%3Atomcat%3A6.0.0>  (Confidence:Medium)  suppress
  *   cpe:2.3:a:apache_tomcat:apache_tomcat:11.0.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*  (Confidence:Low)  suppress

el-api.jar
Identifiers

  *   cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jakarta_expression_language:6.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*  (Confidence:Low)  suppress
Thanks and Regards,
S Sathish S

On 2025/11/07 16:43:43 Christopher Schultz wrote:
> 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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