Apache Log4j 2 VS nuclei-templates

I don't think that's a good example. While Apache devs are volunteers and Microsoft devs are employees, they were criticized for their slow response time and seeming lack of urgency until it was far too late.

https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/608#issuecomme...

The official website. The vulnerability was introduced in 2.0-beta7 which was released in 2013.

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What you need is log4j-core, what you downloaded is some kind of connector between log4j and JUL. Tbh I don't know what JUL is, but that's not important. You can get log4j-core on from the official website - https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/ or in maven repo. In case you're not using maven, I highly, highly recommend you using it for managing your dependencies.

> When it was first revealed in early December 2021, the Log4Shell bug was described as one of the most severe security vulnerabilities ever.

> The Apache Software Foundation, which maintains the open-source tool, quickly released a patch...

Apache horribly mismanaged this and did not release a patch until it was already widely known and being exploited in the wild. They also messed up and had to release several subsequent patches to actually fix the vulnerability.

Remember: this vulnerability was disclosed to them in November.

https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/608#issuecomme...

Think back to the Log4J event, were you affected? (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2)

Check https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei mostly for CVEs.

Otherwise your on the right path checkout the open source Greenbones OpenVAS (this was Nessus before they closed source and became corporate) or Project Discovery Nuclei

Nmap can run scripts that trigger NIPS, as does Nuclei. https://nmap.org/ & https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei you can look at a list of vuln scanners here. https://owasp.org/www-community/Vulnerability_Scanning_Tools. Nessus would be a common one to look at for Enterprise. Rapid 7, Qualys.

I created a nuclei template and scanned the bug bounty programs with nuclei and found that many companies were vulnerable to this.

Nuclei might be a good option: https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei

Recently one of the security researchers has built a Nuclei Template to Detect Spring4Shell, This template can be easily run to scan for Spring4Shell on your Networking, routing, or security devices inside your network. Template Link: https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/master/cves/2022/CVE-2022-22965.yaml

For a curated collection of CVE PoCs that is continuously updated by the bug bounty community, check out the projectdiscovery nuclei repo: https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/tree/ma...

https://github.com/google/tsunami-security-scanner (I bet it would be easy to write a plugin for https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei as well.)

To see if there are injection points statically, I work on a tool (https://github.com/returntocorp/semgrep) that someone else already wrote a check with: https://twitter.com/lapt0r/status/1469096944047779845 or look for the mitigation with `semgrep -e '$LOGGER.formatMsgNoLookups(true)' --lang java`. For the mitigation, the string should be unique enough that just ripgrep works well too.