CVE-2019-17571: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

December 20, 2019 (updated January 6, 2020)

Included in Log4j is a SocketServer class that is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data which can be exploited to remotely execute arbitrary code when combined with a deserialization gadget when listening to untrusted network traffic for log data.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17571

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