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SCA: security update for org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core, org.ops4j.pax.logging:pax-logging-log4j2 (GHSA-8489-44mv-ggj8)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 412413

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Apache Log4j2 versions 2.0-beta7 through 2.17.0 (excluding security fix releases 2.3.2 and 2.12.4) are
 vulnerable to a remote code execution (RCE) attack when a configuration uses a JDBC Appender with a JNDI
 LDAP data source URI when an attacker has control of the target LDAP server. This issue is fixed by
 limiting JNDI data source names to the java protocol in Log4j2 versions 2.17.1, 2.12.4, and 2.3.2.
 (CVE-2021-44832)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8489-44mv-ggj8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 412413

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.95

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-44832

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/4/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/10/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-44832