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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.
A fact from Log4Shell appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 December 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the software vulnerability Log4Shell affects hundreds of millions of devices worldwide? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/December.
November and December: On November 24, Chen Zhaojun of Alibaba's Cloud Security Team reported a zero-day vulnerability (later dubbed Log4Shell) involving the use of arbitrary code execution in the ubiquitous Java logging framework software Log4j.
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ZDNET reported in March 2022 that hackers utilized Log4Shell on some customers' VMware servers to install backdoors and for cryptocurrency mining. [47] In May 2022, Bleeping Computer reported that the Lazarus Group cybercrime group, which is possibly linked to North Korea , was actively using Log4Shell "to inject backdoors that fetch ...
All unrelated to log4shell and easy to migitate. The whole reload4j project is obsolete and there is no need to introduce problems like classpath crashes using it. That said, I don't think it's worth mentioning it on the log4j wikipedia. Cy23 18:54, 19 February 2022 (UTC) Indeed, log4j 1.x was not affected by log4shell.
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 ...