Critical New 0-day Vulnerability in Popular Log4j Library Discovered with Evidence of Mass Scanning for Affected Applications

Laptop with code showing open source vulnerability exploit

News broke early Friday morning of a serious 0-day Remote Code Execution exploit in log4j - CVE-2021-44228- the most popular java logging framework used by Java software far and wide. This type of vulnerability is especially dangerous as it can be used to run any code via your software and requires very low skills to pull off from an attacker. Log4j is near ubiquitous in Java applications, so immediate action is needed from software maintainers to patch. 

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