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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2021-4104: Security patch for log4j (ALAS-2022-1562)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2021-4104: Security patch for log4j (ALAS-2022-1562)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/14/2021
Created
01/22/2022
Added
01/20/2022
Modified
01/20/2022

Description

JMSAppender in Log4j 1.2 is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data when the attacker has write access to the Log4j configuration. The attacker can provide TopicBindingName and TopicConnectionFactoryBindingName configurations causing JMSAppender to perform JNDI requests that result in remote code execution in a similar fashion to CVE-2021-44228. Note this issue only affects Log4j 1.2 when specifically configured to use JMSAppender, 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-upgrade-log4j

References

  • ALAS-2022-1562
  • CVE-2021-4104
  • USN-5223-1

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