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[Updated] Regarding log4j CVE-2021-44228 with dotTEST

sang_parasoft
sang_parasoft Posts: 27 admin
edited December 2021 in dotTEST

NIST recently released several Apache's log4j Zero-Day vulnerability cases, a very popular Java library to log messages in Java Applications.

dotTEST versions impacted:

  • 2021.1
  • 2021.2

The impacted releases include log4j 2.14.0.
Any older releases include log4j 1.x which are not impacted by this vulnerability.

Updated Release for dotTEST

Updated dotTEST are now
(as of December 20, 2021) available on the Customer Portal Download page. Both include log4j 2.16.0 to address CVE-2021-44228.

  • 2021.1.1
  • 2021.2.1

Workaround Solution for dotTEST

The recommended approach for all products is to set an environment variable to mitigate the issue

LOG4J_FORMAT_MSG_NO_LOOKUPS=true