CVE-2021-3100

Summary

CVECVE-2021-3100
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-04-19 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-10-06 16:08:00 UTC
DescriptionThe Apache Log4j hotpatch package before log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatch-1.1-13 didn’t mimic the permissions of the JVM being patched, allowing it to escalate privileges.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-269

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Amazon Log4jhotpatch All All All All
Application Linux Linux Kernel - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ALAS2-2021-1732 MISC alas.aws.amazon.com
AWS's Log4Shell Hot Patch Vulnerable to Container Escape and Privilege Escalation MISC unit42.paloaltonetworks.com
ALAS-2021-1554 MISC alas.aws.amazon.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Yuval Avrahami, Palo Alto Networks

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