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Researchers release 'vaccine' for critical Log4Shell vulnerability
2021-12-11 01:58

Researchers from cybersecurity firm Cybereason has released a "Vaccine" that can be used to remotely mitigate the critical 'Log4Shell' Apache Log4j code execution vulnerability running rampant through the Internet.

Early this morning, researchers released a proof-of-concept exploit for a zero-day remote code execution vulnerability in Apache Log4j tracked as CVE-2021-44228 and dubbed 'Log4Shell.

While Apache quickly released Log4j 2.15.0 to resolve the vulnerability, the vulnerability is trivial to exploit, and cybersecurity firms and researchers quickly saw attackers scan and attempt to compromise vulnerable devices.

Friday evening, cybersecurity firm Cybereason released a script, or "Vaccine," that exploits the vulnerability to turn off a setting in remote, vulnerable Log4Shell instance.

Basically, the vaccine fixes the vulnerability by exploiting the vulnerable server.

There is also concern that security researchers may use the vulnerability to remotely fix servers, even though doing something like this is considered illegal.


News URL

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/researchers-release-vaccine-for-critical-log4shell-vulnerability/

Related Vulnerability

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2021-12-10 CVE-2021-44228 Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in multiple products
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.
10.0