Attackers are exploiting a vulnerability in the Log4j logging platform on systems running Apache software that is written in Java and utilizes the log4j library. Critical systems will be impacted.

A hacking risk discovered last month within the widely used Apache Log4j logging tool has been labeled “the single biggest, most critical vulnerability of the last decade” by the CEO of cybersecurity ...

Apache said version 2.16 "does not always protect from infinite recursion in lookup evaluation" and explained that it is vulnerable to CVE-2021-45105, a denial of service vulnerability. They said the ...

The vulnerability affects not only Java-based applications and services that use the library directly, but also many other popular Java components and development frameworks that rely on it. Attackers ...