Headline
CVE-2021-45046: security - CVE-2021-45046: Apache Log4j2 Thread Context Message Pattern and Context Lookup Pattern vulnerable to a denial of service attack
It was found that the fix to address CVE-2021-44228 in Apache Log4j 2.15.0 was incomplete in certain non-default configurations. This could allows attackers with control over Thread Context Map (MDC) input data when the logging configuration uses a non-default Pattern Layout with either a Context Lookup (for example, $${ctx:loginId}) or a Thread Context Map pattern (%X, %mdc, or %MDC) to craft malicious input data using a JNDI Lookup pattern resulting in a denial of service (DOS) attack. Log4j 2.15.0 restricts JNDI LDAP lookups to localhost by default. Note that previous mitigations involving configuration such as to set the system property log4j2.noFormatMsgLookup
to true
do NOT mitigate this specific vulnerability. Log4j 2.16.0 fixes this issue by removing support for message lookup patterns and disabling JNDI functionality by default. This issue can be mitigated in prior releases (<2.16.0) by removing the JndiLookup class from the classpath (example: zip -q -d log4j-core-*.jar org/apache/logging/log4j/core/lookup/JndiLookup.class).
- Products
- Openwall GNU/*/Linux server OS
- Linux Kernel Runtime Guard
- John the Ripper password cracker
- Free & Open Source for any platform
- in the cloud
- Pro for Linux
- Pro for macOS
- Wordlists for password cracking
- passwdqc policy enforcement
- Free & Open Source for Unix
- Pro for Windows (Active Directory)
- yescrypt KDF & password hashing
- yespower Proof-of-Work (PoW)
- crypt_blowfish password hashing
- phpass ditto in PHP
- tcb better password shadowing
- Pluggable Authentication Modules
- scanlogd port scan detector
- popa3d tiny POP3 daemon
- blists web interface to mailing lists
- msulogin single user mode login
- php_mt_seed mt_rand() cracker
- Services
- Publications
- Articles
- Presentations
- Resources
- Mailing lists
- Community wiki
- Source code repositories (GitHub)
- Source code repositories (CVSweb)
- File archive & mirrors
- How to verify digital signatures
- OVE IDs
- What’s new