Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) Affecting log4j-jars package, versions <2.15.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.19% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-LOG4JJARS-567765
  • published 28 Apr 2020
  • disclosed 27 Apr 2020
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade log4j-jars to version 2.15.0 or higher.

Overview

log4j-jars is a ruby bundled Log4j jars.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle (MitM). Improper validation of certificate with host mismatch in Apache Log4j SMTP appender. This could allow an SMTPS connection to be intercepted by a man-in-the-middle attack which could leak any log messages sent through that appender.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
3.7 low
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

3.7 low
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Red Hat

3.7 low