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Apache Log4j 2.17.1 fixes new remote code execution flaw (CVE-2021-44832)

Pierluigi Paganini December 29, 2021

The Apache Software Foundation released Log4j 2.17.1 version to address recently discovered arbitrary code execution flaw tracked as CVE-2021-44832.

The Apache Software Foundation released Log4j 2.17.1 version to address a recently discovered arbitrary code execution flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-44832, affecting Log4j 2.17.0.

CVE-2021-44832 is the fifth vulnerability discovered in the popular library in the last weeks. Like the previous issues affecting the library, this one could be exploited by threat actors to execute malicious code on affected systems.

“Apache Log4j2 versions 2.0-beta7 through 2.17.0 (excluding security fix releases 2.3.2 and 2.12.4) are vulnerable to a remote code execution (RCE) attack where an attacker with permission to modify the logging configuration file can construct a malicious configuration using a JDBC Appender with a data source referencing a JNDI URI which can execute remote code. This issue is fixed by limiting JNDI data source names to the java protocol in Log4j2 versions 2.17.1, 2.12.4, and 2.3.2.” reads the advisory.

The flaw received a CVSS score of 6.6 and impacts all log4j versions from 2.0-alpha7 to 2.17.0. Versions 2.3.2 and 2.12.4. are not impacted.

The vulnerability was discovered by Checkmarx security researcher Yaniv Nizry who reported it to Apache on December 27.

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— Yaniv Nizry (@YNizry) December 28, 2021

Nizry also published details of the CVE-2021-44832 flaw in a blog post, he speculates that the exploitation of this issue is more complex than the CVE-2021-44228 one.

“This vulnerability doesn’t use the disabled lookup feature. The complexity of this vulnerability is higher than the original CVE-2021-44228 since it requires the attacker to have control over the configuration,” states Nizry. “Unlike Logback, in Log4j there is a feature to load a remote configuration file or to configure the logger through the code, so an arbitrary code execution could be achieved with [an] MitM attack, user input ending up in a vulnerable configuration variable, or modifying the config file.”

The previous vulnerabilities discovered in the Log4J library are:

  • CVE-2021-44228 (CVSS score: 10.0) – A remote code execution vulnerability affecting Log4j versions from 2.0-beta9 to 2.14.1
  • CVE-2021-45046 (CVSS score: 9.0) – 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 (CVSS score: 7.5) – A denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability affecting Log4j versions from 2.0-beta9 to 2.16.0
  • CVE-2021-4104 (CVSS score: 8.1) – An untrusted deserialization vulnerability affecting Log4j version 1.2

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