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log4j-jndi-be-gone: A simple mitigation for CVE-2021-44228

ID: b017bd5c-d436-58b5-b392-4c1b4f6143d8

STIX ID: report--b017bd5c-d436-58b5-b392-4c1b4f6143d8

Feed Name: Fox-IT blog

Threat Score
90/100

Date Published: 2021-12-14

Date Updated: 2026-04-27

Author: Joost Jansen

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This post analyzes the Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) vulnerability in Apache Log4j, describes how JNDI-based format string expansion enables remote class loading and RCE across many Java applications, critiques the available fixes, and offers a Java agent (log4j-jndi-be-gone) as a practical mitigation (-javaagent:log4j-jndi-be-gone-1.0.0-standalone.jar).

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