There is a new Log4J CVE, everyone using log4j needs to upgrade to 2.17.0
now.

https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/security.html#CVE-2021-45105

Joakim Erdfelt / joa...@webtide.com


On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 5:16 PM Simone Bordet <sbor...@webtide.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 11:29 AM Lothar Kimmeringer <j...@kimmeringer.de>
> wrote:
> > Am 16.12.2021 um 14:26 schrieb Joakim Erdfelt:
> >
> > > As Simone pointed out, Jetty has never had a dependency on log4j, any
> version.
> > > If you are using log4j, then you added it to your own copy of Jetty.
> >
> > While the statement is true it might be worth mentioning that
> > Jetty could use log4j indirectly if log4j has been configured
> > to be SLF4J's backend logging framework and Jetty has been
> > configured to use Slf4jLog and/or Slf4jRequestLogWriter.
> >
> > Especially if Jetty is embedded into a larger application, this
> > scenario isn't that far fetched.
>
> You are right that this scenario is possible, but there is nothing
> that we can do about it.
> We don't have to release a new version of Jetty to patch anything,
> because there is nothing to patch on the Jetty side.
>
> Sure people will need to carefully review their dependencies,
> recursively, and whether they have configured Jetty (or some other
> library) with Log4J, and we wrote a generic how-to for how to deal
> with some of these cases (again we cannot cover them all) in this
> blog:
> https://webtide.com/jetty-log4j2-exploit-cve-2021-44228/
>
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