Glossary: Security Fundamentals
Log4Shell
Also written: Log4j, Log4j2, CVE-2021-44228
CVE-2021-44228, a 2021 bug in Log4j, a Java logging library, that let an attacker run code on a server just by getting it to log crafted text. It scores 10.0 and is in KEV.
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Related terms
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures)CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System)KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities)