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Re:Log4j RCE Found by xyst on Thursday December 09, 2021 @08:18PM (#29505336)
This should be something that static code analyzers should pick up. If a dependency log4j dependency is <2.15, then it needs to be updated.

Just in time to ruin all of the reports project managers present to executives

Re:Log4j RCE Found by nick__m on Thursday December 09, 2021 @08:28PM (#29505408)
the vulnerable feature is not in log4j < 2.10

see https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/608#issuecomme...

and you can just delete the affected class

Re:Log4j RCE Found by agwa on Thursday December 09, 2021 @10:44PM (#29506162)
> the vulnerable feature is not in log4j < 2.10

The comment you cited is referring to the option to disable the vulnerable feature, not the vulnerable feature itself.

Per https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/608#issuecomme... even log4j 1.x is vulnerable.

Re:Log4j RCE Found by tmd83 on Thursday December 09, 2021 @11:50PM (#29506521)
Does that mean it's only vulnerable if JMSAppender is used otherwise not? Which should at least be a rarer use case.
Re:Log4j RCE Found by philipwhiuk on Saturday December 11, 2021 @09:39AM (#29521151)
Log4J 1 is only vulnerable for JMS Log4J 2 is vulnerable < 2.15.0. There are mitigations for > 2.10.0 and > 2.7.0
Re:Log4j RCE Found by cesarb on Thursday December 09, 2021 @11:22PM (#29506358)
What I understood from that comment is that log4j 1.x is only vulnerable if you use the JMS Appender, which is probably not the most common configuration.
Re:Log4j RCE Found by nick__m on Thursday December 09, 2021 @11:17PM (#29506334)
please ignore my comment on the version, agwa is right, update the library or delete the vulnerable class.
Re:Log4j RCE Found by jpomykala on Thursday December 09, 2021 @11:11PM (#29506300)
“Also, we can't be sure about whole scenario. There're reports that indicates this RCE is still possible in 2.15+ RCs builds, so there is a chance there are also other gateways to achieve the same effect.”
Re:Log4j RCE Found by 3boll on Thursday December 09, 2021 @09:44PM (#29505874)
They will :)