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CVE-2017-5645

log4j: Socket receiver deserialization vulnerability

Published Modified CWE 502
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GHSA9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat8.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, GHSA. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), Oracle (high), Amazon (medium).

Description

In Apache Log4j 2.x before 2.8.2, when using the TCP socket server or UDP socket server to receive serialized log events from another application, a specially crafted binary payload can be sent that, when deserialized, can execute arbitrary code.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavenorg.apache.logging.log4j:log4j, org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core2.8.2
amazon linux 1log4j, log4j-javadoc, log4j-manual1.2.17-16.12.amzn1
amazon linux 2log4j, log4j-javadoc, log4j-manual1.2.17-17.amzn2
debian 11apache-log4j22.7-2
debian 12apache-log4j22.7-2
debian 13apache-log4j22.7-2
debian 14apache-log4j22.7-2
debian 8apache-log4j2no fix listed
echoapache-log4j22.7-2
Oracle Linux 6log4j, log4j-javadoc, log4j-manual1.2.14-6.4.2.el6_10
Oracle Linux 7log4j, log4j-javadoc, log4j-manual1.2.17-16.el7_4
Red Hatlog4j, log4j-javadoc, log4j-manualno fix listed
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SourcePackageFixed in
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavenorg.apache.logging.log4j:log4j2.8.2
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavenorg.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core2.8.2
amazon linux 1log4j1.2.17-16.12.amzn1
amazon linux 1log4j-javadoc1.2.17-16.12.amzn1
amazon linux 1log4j-manual1.2.17-16.12.amzn1
amazon linux 2log4j1.2.17-17.amzn2
amazon linux 2log4j-javadoc1.2.17-17.amzn2
amazon linux 2log4j-manual1.2.17-17.amzn2
debian 11apache-log4j22.7-2
debian 12apache-log4j22.7-2
debian 13apache-log4j22.7-2
debian 14apache-log4j22.7-2
debian 8apache-log4j2no fix listed
echoapache-log4j22.7-2
Oracle Linux 6log4j1.2.14-6.4.2.el6_10
Oracle Linux 6log4j-javadoc1.2.14-6.4.2.el6_10
Oracle Linux 6log4j-manual1.2.14-6.4.2.el6_10
Oracle Linux 7log4j1.2.17-16.el7_4
Oracle Linux 7log4j-javadoc1.2.17-16.el7_4
Oracle Linux 7log4j-manual1.2.17-16.el7_4
Red Hatlog4jno fix listed
Red Hatlog4j-javadocno fix listed
Red Hatlog4j-manualno fix listed

References

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