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Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) is a zero-day vulnerability reported in November 2021 in Log4j, a popular Java logging framework, involving arbitrary code execution. [2] [3] The vulnerability had existed unnoticed since 2013 and was privately disclosed to the Apache Software Foundation, of which Log4j is a project, by Chen Zhaojun of Alibaba Cloud's security team on 24 November 2021.
A zero-day vulnerability involving remote code execution in Log4j 2, given the descriptor "Log4Shell" (CVE-2021-44228), was found and reported to Apache by Alibaba on November 24, 2021, and published in a tweet on December 9, 2021. [12] Affected services include Cloudflare, iCloud, Minecraft: Java Edition, [42] Steam, Tencent QQ, and Twitter.
Log4Shell, which is the actual bug in Log4j, is what is known as a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, the worst kind of threat. In this particular case, the Log4Shell vulnerability is so ...
A major cybersecurity vulnerability is impacting nearly all of the internet, sending everything from financial institutions to government entities scrambling to patch their systems, before ...
On its own, an arbitrary code execution exploit will give the attacker the same privileges as the target process that is vulnerable. [11] For example, if exploiting a flaw in a web browser, an attacker could act as the user, performing actions such as modifying personal computer files or accessing banking information, but would not be able to perform system-level actions (unless the user in ...
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Fixes for Log4Shell vulnerability and breaking changes to bundled Apache XML-RPC libraries to resolve security issues. [6] 5.0.0 September 2, 2019 More than 1,400 commits including improvements to document and collection locking, migration of build system from Apache Ant to Apache Maven, support removed for running eXist-db in Apache Tomcat. [7 ...