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CVE-2021-4104

Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
0.81147
Risk score
58.4
CISA KEV
No
PoC
No
Published
2021-12-14
Modified
2026-05-28
First seen
2026-08-07
Aliases
EUVD-2021-2514, GHSA-FP5R-V3W9-4333
Products
Apache Software Foundation:Apache Log4j 1.x Apache Log4j 1.2 1.2.x
Sources
euvd EUVD-2021-2514

Description

JMSAppender in Log4j 1.2 is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data when the attacker has write access to the Log4j configuration. The attacker can provide TopicBindingName and TopicConnectionFactoryBindingName configurations causing JMSAppender to perform JNDI requests that result in remote code execution in a similar fashion to CVE-2021-44228. Note this issue only affects Log4j 1.2 when specifically configured to use JMSAppender, which is not the default. Apache Log4j 1.2 reached end of life in August 2015. Users should upgrade to Log4j 2 as it addresses numerous other issues from the previous versions.

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