Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package log4j12  (opens in a new tab)


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Attacked
EPSS
94.38% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-LOG4J12-2315446
  • published10 Dec 2021
  • disclosed10 Dec 2021

Introduced: 10 Dec 2021

CVE-2021-44228  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream log4j12 package and not the log4j12 package as distributed by RHEL.

Apache Log4j2 2.0-beta9 through 2.15.0 (excluding security releases 2.12.2, 2.12.3, and 2.3.1) JNDI features used in configuration, log messages, and parameters do not protect against attacker controlled LDAP and other JNDI related endpoints. An attacker who can control log messages or log message parameters can execute arbitrary code loaded from LDAP servers when message lookup substitution is enabled. From log4j 2.15.0, this behavior has been disabled by default. From version 2.16.0 (along with 2.12.2, 2.12.3, and 2.3.1), this functionality has been completely removed. Note that this vulnerability is specific to log4j-core and does not affect log4net, log4cxx, or other Apache Logging Services projects.

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