Update pom.xml

Added few lines of code to update dependencies, removing the vulnerable 2.5.1 json-smart, and filtering out commons-logging's pom.xml that mentions an optional log4j dependency that is not being used by code

Author: syntheshad

pom.xml

@@ -101,6 +101,17 @@
         <version.nexus-staging-maven>1.7.0</version.nexus-staging-maven>
     </properties>
 
+    <!-- Only include if latest json-path still uses vulnerable json-smart dependency -->
+    <dependencyManagement>
+        <dependencies>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>net.minidev</groupId>
+                <artifactId>json-smart</artifactId>
+                <version>2.5.2</version>
+            </dependency>
+        </dependencies>
+    </dependencyManagement>
+    
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.networknt</groupId>
@@ -439,6 +450,18 @@
                         <goals>
                             <goal>shade</goal>
                         </goals>
+                        <!-- AWS SDK uses commons-logging that has a vulnerable log4j dependency, but is not being used by code -->
+                        <!-- Adding this as an interim solution to avoid getting flagged when META-INF is scanned -->
+                        <configuration>
+                            <filters>
+                                <filter>
+                                    <artifact>commons-logging:commons-logging</artifact>
+                                    <excludes>
+                                        <exclude>META-INF/maven/**</exclude>
+                                    </excludes>
+                                </filter>
+                            </filters>
+                        </configuration>
                     </execution>
                 </executions>
             </plugin>