Known high severity security vulnerability detected in com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind >= 2.9.0, < 2.9.8

github reports this security vulnerability with jackson library. This is the current declared version of jackson library:

<version.com.fasterxml.jackson>2.9.5</version.com.fasterxml.jackson>

Need to evaluate and upgrade to more recent versions (2.9.8 or later).

The following is copied from the related github alert issue for easy reference:

7 com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind vulnerabilities found in pom.xml an hour ago
Remediation
Upgrade com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind to version 2.9.8 or later. For example:

<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
<version>[2.9.8,)</version>
</dependency>
Always verify the validity and compatibility of suggestions with your codebase.

Details
CVE-2018-19360 More information
high severity
Vulnerable versions: >= 2.9.0, < 2.9.8
Patched version: 2.9.8
FasterXML jackson-databind 2.x before 2.9.8 might allow attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging failure to block the axis2-transport-jms class from polymorphic deserialization.

CVE-2018-19362 More information
high severity
Vulnerable versions: >= 2.9.0, < 2.9.8
Patched version: 2.9.8
FasterXML jackson-databind 2.x before 2.9.8 might allow attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging failure to block the jboss-common-core class from polymorphic deserialization.

CVE-2018-19361 More information
high severity
Vulnerable versions: >= 2.9.0, < 2.9.8
Patched version: 2.9.8
FasterXML jackson-databind 2.x before 2.9.8 might allow attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging failure to block the openjpa class from polymorphic deserialization.

CVE-2018-14718 More information
high severity
Vulnerable versions: >= 2.9.0, < 2.9.7
Patched version: 2.9.7
FasterXML jackson-databind 2.x before 2.9.7 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging failure to block the slf4j-ext class from polymorphic deserialization.

CVE-2018-14720 More information
high severity
Vulnerable versions: >= 2.9.0, < 2.9.7
Patched version: 2.9.7
FasterXML jackson-databind 2.x before 2.9.7 might allow attackers to conduct external XML entity (XXE) attacks by leveraging failure to block unspecified JDK classes from polymorphic deserialization.

CVE-2018-14719 More information
high severity
Vulnerable versions: >= 2.9.0, < 2.9.7
Patched version: 2.9.7
FasterXML jackson-databind 2.x before 2.9.7 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging failure to block the blaze-ds-opt and blaze-ds-core classes from polymorphic deserialization.

CVE-2018-14721 More information
high severity
Vulnerable versions: >= 2.9.0, < 2.9.7
Patched version: 2.9.7
FasterXML jackson-databind 2.x before 2.9.7 might allow remote attackers to conduct server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks by leveraging failure to block the axis2-jaxws class from polymorphic deserialization.