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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2022-23302: Security patch for log4j (ALAS-2022-1750)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2022-23302: Security patch for log4j (ALAS-2022-1750)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/18/2022
Created
07/16/2022
Added
07/04/2022
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

JMSSink in all versions of Log4j 1.x is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data when the attacker has write access to the Log4j configuration or if the configuration references an LDAP service the attacker has access to. The attacker can provide a TopicConnectionFactoryBindingName configuration causing JMSSink to perform JNDI requests that result in remote code execution in a similar fashion to CVE-2021-4104. Note this issue only affects Log4j 1.x when specifically configured to use JMSSink, which is not the default. Apache Log4j 1.2 reached end of life in August 2015. Users should upgrade to Log4j 2 as it addresses numerous other issues from the previous versions.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-log4j
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-log4j-javadoc
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-log4j-manual

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