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Log4J JNDI Vulnerability

 

This post is an extension of https://techdevins.blogspot.com/2021/09/solving-jenkins-maven-build-xray-log4j.html
Apart from fix that was discussed in https://techdevins.blogspot.com/2021/09/solving-jenkins-maven-build-xray-log4j.html. It is required to upgrade Log4J to 2.15.0 or above due to JNDI attack. 

Refer below figure to understand the deserialization of untrusted data which can be exploited to remotely execute arbitrary code.




There are certain posts which suggest to set below property 
  • log4j2.formatMsgNoLookups
But, that's serious vulnerability, you shouldn't contemplate these workarounds and upgrade Log4j jars. Refer https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/security.html

"A new CVE (CVE-2021-45046, see above) was raised for this.

Other insufficient mitigation measures are: setting system property log4j2.formatMsgNoLookups or environment variable LOG4J_FORMAT_MSG_NO_LOOKUPS to true for releases >= 2.10, or modifying the logging configuration to disable message lookups with %m{nolookups}, %msg{nolookups} or %message{nolookups} for releases >= 2.7 and <= 2.14.1.

The reason these measures are insufficient is that, in addition to the Thread Context attack vector mentioned above, there are still code paths in Log4j where message lookups could occur: known examples are applications that use Logger.printf("%s", userInput), or applications that use a custom message factory, where the resulting messages do not implement StringBuilderFormattable. There may be other attack vectors.

The safest thing to do is to upgrade Log4j to a safe version, or remove the JndiLookup class from the log4j-core jar."

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