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😰 Log4J vulnerability in detail and the bigger picture

Supratim Samanta
Geek Culture

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It’s a sad day for the Java community

CVE-2021–44228 is a very hot number string today. Search it everywhere, it is there in youtube, blogs, news, podcasts and everywhere.

Why it is so popular, you may ask. Let’s discuss.

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Table of Contents
· 📍Issue
📎 Links
· ✅ Mitigation
If you can redeploy quickly
Other workaround from apache
Update December 13, 2021
Update December 17, 2021 (CVE-2021–45105)
· 🗒 Details
The source
The reason
Let’s see it in action
More exploitations
Conclusion

📍Issue

On December 9th, Apache Foundation posted an article that discusses about a Zero Day vulnerability regarding the Log4j java library. If you are not aware, Log4j is one of the most used java libraries of all time in the Java community. To most of the organization, this is the one and only log library used in their production system. The…

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Geek Culture

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