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Instituto Nacional de Ciberseguridad. Sección INCIBE-CERT

CVE-2025-68161

Gravedad CVSS v4.0:
MEDIA
Tipo:
CWE-297 Validación incorrecta de certificados con host no coincidente
Fecha de publicación:
18/12/2025
Última modificación:
19/12/2025

Descripción

*** Pendiente de traducción *** The Socket Appender in Apache Log4j Core versions 2.0-beta9 through 2.25.2 does not perform TLS hostname verification of the peer certificate, even when the verifyHostName https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/appenders/network.html#SslConfiguration-attr-verifyHostName configuration attribute or the log4j2.sslVerifyHostName https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/systemproperties.html#log4j2.sslVerifyHostName system property is set to true.<br /> <br /> This issue may allow a man-in-the-middle attacker to intercept or redirect log traffic under the following conditions:<br /> <br /> * The attacker is able to intercept or redirect network traffic between the client and the log receiver.<br /> * The attacker can present a server certificate issued by a certification authority trusted by the Socket Appender’s configured trust store (or by the default Java trust store if no custom trust store is configured).<br /> <br /> <br /> Users are advised to upgrade to Apache Log4j Core version 2.25.3, which addresses this issue.<br /> <br /> As an alternative mitigation, the Socket Appender may be configured to use a private or restricted trust root to limit the set of trusted certificates.