Ever since the public exploit of the Log4Shell remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability became known on December 10, 2021, security teams have been scrambling to understand the risk to their environments. Part of that scramble has been to ascertain which tools are best positioned to help detect the vulnerability. Which approaches are most effective and where do they fall short? In this blog post, we'll describe some of the ways that Log4Shell vulnerabilities can be detected and discuss the pros and cons of each.
Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
SCA tools are focused on risks associated with third-party libraries. As such, they are well-suited to identify the presence of vulnerable log4j-core components in Java applications and other Java codebases. It's important that the SCA tool pinpoints and reports the exact version that is being used as there has been a flurry of releases of log4j-core in the past two weeks. As of this writing, 2.17 is considered the only fully safe…
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A Review of Log4Shell Detection Methods
Ever since the public exploit of the Log4Shell remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability became known on December 10, 2021, security teams have been scrambling to understand the risk to their environments. Part of that scramble has been to …
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