🛡️ GHSA-mf4f-j588-5xm8 — opencast-common (CVE-2021-44228)

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Apache Log4j Remote Code Execution

Impact

Opencast uses an Apache Log4j2 version which, combined with older JDK versions, can be used for remote code execution attacks which have been found to be actively exploited.

Apache Log4j2 <=2.14.1 JNDI features is not sufficiently protected. An attacker who can control log messages or log message parameters can execute arbitrary code when message lookup substitution is enabled.

Who is affected

  • Opencast before 9.10 or 10.6 are affected
  • Log4j version: all 2.x versions before 2.15.0 are affected

Patches

The issue has been fixed in Opencast 9.10 and 10.6.

Workarounds

The vulnerability can be mitigated by setting system property log4j2.formatMsgNoLookups to true.

References

  • [Opencast pull request mitigating the vulnerability](https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/3253)
  • [CVE-2021-44228 Detail](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44228)
  • [Analysis and Remediation Guidance to the Log4j Zero-Day RCE (CVE-2021-44228) Vulnerability](https://www.veracode.com/blog/security-news/urgent-analysis-and-remediation-guidance-log4j-zero-day-rce-cve-2021-44228)
  • [VE-2021-44228 – Log4j 2 Vulnerability Analysis](https://www.randori.com/blog/cve-2021-44228/)

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

  • Open an issue in [our issue tracker](https://github.com/opencast/opencast/issues)
  • Email us at [security@opencast.org](mailto:security@opencast.org)

Note about dependencies

This issue affects many Java applications. Please also verify these are not vulnerable.

Affected software

GHSA-mf4f-j588-5xm8 is recorded against 1 package.

  • org.opencastproject:opencast-common (from 10.0 up to 10.6)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 December 2021 and last revised on 2 December 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
docs.opencast.org (Web)
docs.opencast.org (Web)
github.com (Package)

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2021-12-14
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-12-02
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.opencastproject:opencast-common 10.0 10.6

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