Security News > 2021 > December > CISA releases Apache Log4j scanner to find vulnerable apps

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has announced the release of a scanner for identifying web services impacted by two Apache Log4j remote code execution vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046.

"Log4j-scanner is a project derived from other members of the open-source community by CISA's Rapid Action Force team to help organizations identify potentially vulnerable web services affected by the log4j vulnerabilities," the cybersecurity agency explains.

The agency was also behind a joint advisory issued today by cybersecurity agencies worldwide and US federal agencies with mitigation guidance on addressing the CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046, and CVE-2021-45105 Log4j vulnerabilities.

CISA's also spearheading a push for urgently patching devices vulnerable to Log4Shell attacks to block threat actors' attempts to exploit Log4Shell vulnerable systems and infect them with malware.

On Friday, CISA ordered Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies to patch their systems against Log4Shell until December 23.

The cybersecurity agency also recently added the flaw to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, thus also requiring expedited action from federal agencies to mitigate this critical flaw until December 24.

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