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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Apache Log4j 2 vulnerabilities (USN-5222-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 176377

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5222-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Apache Log4j 2 was vulnerable to remote code execution (RCE) attack when configured to use a JDBC Appender with a JNDI LDAP data source URI. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2021-44832)

 Hideki Okamoto and Guy Lederfein discovered that Apache Log4j 2 did not protect against infinite recursion in lookup evaluation. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Apache Log4j 2 to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-45105)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected liblog4j2-java package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5222-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 176377

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5222-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/25/2023

Updated: 8/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 7.4

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: 6.3

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:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblog4j2-java

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/11/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/10/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-44832, CVE-2021-45105

USN: 5222-1