Log4j
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First CVE: Apr 17, 2017 · Active for 9 years
20
Total CVEs
More Total CVEs than 94% of tracked products
2.5
Avg CVEs / Year
Higher CVE frequency than 74% of tracked products
7.7
Avg CVSS
Higher Avg CVSS than 62% of tracked products
10.0%
KEV Rate
Higher KEV Rate than 97% of tracked products
Trends Over Time
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact Log4j over time
Volume of CVEsAvg CVSS Base Score
First CVE
Apr 17, 2017
9 years ago
Most Recent CVE
Jul 10, 2026
14 days ago
CVE Severity & Scoring
Log4j20 CVEs
25%
40%
30%
All CVEs352,231 CVEs
45%
40%
11%
LowMediumHighCritical
Attack Vector
Local0 (0.0%)
Network20 (100.0%)
Unknown0 (0.0%)
Physical0 (0.0%)
Adjacent Network0 (0.0%)
Attack Complexity
Low12 (60.0%)
High8 (40.0%)
Unknown0 (0.0%)
User Interaction
None20 (100.0%)
Unknown0 (0.0%)
Required0 (0.0%)
Privileges Required
Low3 (15.0%)
High1 (5.0%)
None16 (80.0%)
Unknown0 (0.0%)
Top CVEs
Signals from CVEs in this product scope (20 CVEs).
20 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2021-44228CRITICAL Apache Log4j2 2.0-beta9 through 2.15.0 (excluding security releases 2.12.2, 2.12.3, and 2.3.1) JNDI features used in configuration, log messages, and parameters do not protect agai | Dec 10, 2021 | 10.0 | 99 | YES | YES |
CVE-2021-45046CRITICAL It was found that the fix to address CVE-2021-44228 in Apache Log4j 2.15.0 was incomplete in certain non-default configurations. This could allows attackers with control over Threa | Dec 14, 2021 | 9.0 | 98 | YES | YES |
CVE-2017-5645CRITICAL 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 payloa | Apr 17, 2017 | 9.8 | 86 | NO | YES |
CVE-2021-44832MEDIUM Apache Log4j2 versions 2.0-beta7 through 2.17.0 (excluding security fix releases 2.3.2 and 2.12.4) are vulnerable to a remote code execution (RCE) attack when a configuration uses | Dec 28, 2021 | 6.6 | 76 | NO | NO |
CVE-2021-45105MEDIUM Apache Log4j2 versions 2.0-alpha1 through 2.16.0 (excluding 2.12.3 and 2.3.1) did not protect from uncontrolled recursion from self-referential lookups. This allows an attacker wit | Dec 18, 2021 | 5.9 | 76 | NO | NO |
CVE-2019-17571CRITICAL Included in Log4j 1.2 is a SocketServer class that is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data which can be exploited to remotely execute arbitrary code when combined with a | Dec 20, 2019 | 9.8 | 72 | NO | NO |
CVE-2021-4104HIGH JMSAppender in Log4j 1.2 is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data when the attacker has write access to the Log4j configuration. The attacker can provide TopicBindingName | Dec 14, 2021 | 7.5 | 70 | NO | NO |
CVE-2022-23305CRITICAL By design, the JDBCAppender in Log4j 1.2.x accepts an SQL statement as a configuration parameter where the values to be inserted are converters from PatternLayout. The message conv | Jan 18, 2022 | 9.8 | 68 | NO | NO |
CVE-2022-23302HIGH JMSSink in all versions of Log4j 1.x is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data when the attacker has write access to the Log4j configuration or if the configuration refere | Jan 18, 2022 | 8.8 | 63 | NO | NO |
CVE-2022-23307HIGH CVE-2020-9493 identified a deserialization issue that was present in Apache Chainsaw. Prior to Chainsaw V2.0 Chainsaw was a component of Apache Log4j 1.2.x where the same issue exi | Jan 18, 2022 | 8.8 | 57 | NO | NO |
Exploit Exposure
Signals from CVEs in this product scope (20 CVEs).
CISA KEV
2 CVEs
10.0% of CVEs· 97th percentile
Metasploit
2 CVEs
10.0% of CVEs· 97th percentile
Nuclei
3 CVEs
15.0% of CVEs· 98th percentile
ExploitDB
1 CVE
5.0% of CVEs· 88th percentile
Social Chatter
Signals from CVEs in this product scope (20 CVEs).
Media Mentions
Signals from CVEs in this product scope (20 CVEs).
Top CNAs Publishing CVEs For Log4j
Top CWEs
Versions
| Version | CVE Count | Avg CVSS | Avg EPSS | KEV | Exploits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0.0 | 6 | 6.9 | 0.6% | 0 | 0 |
| 2.26.0 | 1 | 5.9 | 0.7% | 0 | 0 |
| 2.0 | 4 | 7.3 | 73.2% | 2 | 2 |
| 1.2 | 1 | 7.5 | 81.2% | 0 | 0 |