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GHSA-94g7-hpv8-h9qm

Published Dec 14, 2021·Last modified Aug 7, 2025
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

Impact

Logging untrusted or user controlled data with a vulnerable version of Log4J may result in Remote Code Execution (RCE) against your application. This includes untrusted data included in logged errors such as exception traces, authentication failures, and other unexpected vectors of user controlled input.

More Details: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jfh8-c2jp-5v3q

Patches

Version 1.11.1 of the Splunk Logging for Java library.

There is also a backport to version 1.6.2 released as a patch: 1.6.2-0-0.

Workarounds

If upgrading is not possible, then ensure the -Dlog4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=true system property is set on both client- and server-side components.

References

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jfh8-c2jp-5v3q

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

  • Open an issue in https://github.com/splunk/splunk-library-javalogging/issues
  • Email us at devinfo@splunk.com
Risk Scores
Base Score
0.0

Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.

Threat Intelligence
0.0

No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.

EPSS
N/A

Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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