Critical Vulnerability Bulletin Update for Log4J

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By: RedLegg Blog

LOG4J Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (Update)

Identifier: CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046

Exploit or POC: YES.

Update:

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44228https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45046 (Updated reference)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45046

Description: CVE-2021-44228 allows an attacker to remotely execute code on the widely used logging library (Log4j). Log4J, between versions 2.0 and 2.15.0 are all affected by CVE-2021-44228 . https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45046

Mitigation recommendation: The only current mitigation is patching LOG4J to version 2.16.0. NIST has determined previous mitigation methods were incomplete and are undergoing additional analysis.