Log4j is everywhere One of the major concerns about Log4Shell is Log4j’s position in the software ecosystem. Logging is a fundamental feature of most software, which makes Log4j very widespread.

Using its integration with PowerBI, Device42 has built dashboards designed to help IT teams find and remediate Log4j issues in real time.

The pervasiveness of the Log4j logging software — and the fact that it’s often leveraged indirectly via Java frameworks — has made the issue difficult to fully address for many organizations.

On December 9, when the Apache Software Foundation disclosed a massive vulnerability in Log4j, its Java logging library, it triggered a cat-and-mouse game as IT professionals raced to secure their ...

In December 2021, a critical vulnerability known as Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) was discovered in the widely-used Apache Log4j logging library. This flaw allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code ...

It happens that Log4j, a popular open source logging package for Java, is a good example of a modular design based on orthogonality.

UPDATE: SolarWinds has fixed a Serv-U bug discovered when attackers used the Log4j flaw to try to log in to the file-sharing software.

Critical flaw in the H2 open-source Java SQL database are similar to the Log4J vulnerability, but do not pose a widespread threat.