CVE-2023-26464

Apache Log4j 1.x (EOL) allows DoS in Chainsaw and SocketAppender

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Mar 10, 2023
Updated
Feb 13, 2025
Reserved
Feb 23, 2023

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Description

** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED **

When using the Chainsaw or SocketAppender components with Log4j 1.x on JRE less than 1.7, an attacker that manages to cause a logging entry involving a specially-crafted (ie, deeply nested) hashmap or hashtable (depending on which logging component is in use) to be processed could exhaust the available memory in the virtual machine and achieve Denial of Service when the object is deserialized.

This issue affects Apache Log4j before 2. Affected users are recommended to update to Log4j 2.x.

NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Apache Log4jApache Software Foundation
  • 1.0.4 to before 2Affected
  • 2 and laterNot affected

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