vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-17571): Apache Log4j vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 20, 2019
Added
Sep 16, 2020
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

Included in Log4j 1.2 is a SocketServer class that is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data which can be exploited to remotely execute arbitrary code when combined with a deserialization gadget when listening to untrusted network traffic for log data. This affects Log4j versions up to 1.2 up to 1.2.17.

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-liblog4j1-2-java
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