A group of developers and maintainers scrambled to secure the Log4j vulnerability over the weekend, but there is still a lot of work to do to clean up the mess.

The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), which rates the severity of security flaws on a scale of one to 10, rates the Log4j vulnerability a 10. Currently, any application using Log4j is at ...

If you're not certain whether your Java project is free from Log4j vulnerabilities, you should try this easy-to-use scanning tool immediately.

Open-source software is everywhere now, but the Log4j flaw that affects Java enterprise applications is a reminder of what can go wrong in the complicated modern software supply chain.

The notice from LunaSec includes temporary mitigations, he added. The vulnerability can be triggered by an attacker sending a string from a server to an application with a vulnerable version of log4j.

The vulnerability, known as Log4shell, was identified in Apache ’s Log4j software library that helps developers keep track of changes in the applications they build.

Attackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in Apache Log4j, a logging library that’s used in potentially millions of Java-based applications, including web-based ones.

NSCS warns that the Log4j flaw won't be fixed overnight and that defenders could suffer burnout during the process.

Why you may already be at risk, how to detect and mitigate the Log4j vulnerabilities now, and how to improve your code security in the future.

Dec 14, 2021 14:45:00 A cheat sheet that summarizes how to deal with the Java / Log4j library vulnerability 'Log4Shell' is being released, and the affected products are also revealed at a glance.