Months on from a critical zero-day vulnerability being disclosed in the widely-used Java logging library Apache Log4j, a significant number of applications and servers are still vulnerable to cyberattacks because security patches haven’t been applied.
First detailed in December, the vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) allows attackers to remotely execute code and gain access to systems that use Log4j.
Not only is the vulnerability relatively simple to take advantage of, but the ubiquitous nature of Log4j means that it’s embedded in a vast array of applications, services and enterprise software tools that are written in Java – and used by organisations and individuals around the world.
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Source: ZDNet