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New Apache Log4j Update Released to Patch Newly Discovered Vulnerability
2021-12-28 21:00

The Apache Software Foundation on Tuesday rolled out fresh patches to contain an arbitrary code execution flaw in Log4j that could be abused by threat actors to run malicious code on affected systems, making it the fifth security shortcoming to be discovered in the tool in the span of a month.

While Log4j versions 1.x are not affected, users are recommended to upgrade to Log4j 2.3.2, 2.12.4, or 2.17.1.

With the latest fix, the project maintainers have addressed a total of four issues in Log4j since the Log4Shell flaw came to light earlier this month, not to mention a fifth vulnerability affecting versions Log4j 1.2 that will not be fixed -.

CVE-2021-44228 - A remote code execution vulnerability affecting Log4j versions from 2.0-beta9 to 2.14.1.

CVE-2021-45046 - An information leak and remote code execution vulnerability affecting Log4j versions from 2.0-beta9 to 2.15.0, excluding 2.12.2.

CVE-2021-45105 - A denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Log4j versions from 2.0-beta9 to 2.16.0.


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Related Vulnerability

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2021-12-18 CVE-2021-45105 Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in multiple products
Apache Log4j2 versions 2.0-alpha1 through 2.16.0 (excluding 2.12.3 and 2.3.1) did not protect from uncontrolled recursion from self-referential lookups.
network
high complexity
apache netapp debian sonicwall oracle CWE-674
5.9
2021-12-14 CVE-2021-45046 Expression Language Injection vulnerability in multiple products
It was found that the fix to address CVE-2021-44228 in Apache Log4j 2.15.0 was incomplete in certain non-default configurations.
network
high complexity
apache intel cvat siemens debian sonicwall fedoraproject CWE-917
critical
9.0
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

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VENDOR LAST 12M #/PRODUCTS LOW MEDIUM HIGH CRITICAL TOTAL VULNS
Apache 305 58 853 656 313 1880