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Home > Cybersecurity > CISA published an emergency directive for Log4j

CISA published an emergency directive for Log4j

CISA published an emergency state to help Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies to protect themselves against the Log4j vulnerability exploits.

Erdem Yasar by Erdem Yasar
December 18, 2021
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Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published Emergency Directive 22-02, named Mitigate Apache Log4j Vulnerability. CISA stated that the vulnerability poses an unacceptable risk to federal agencies and requires emergency action. CISA also already added the CVE-2021-44228 vulnerability to its catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities, as defined by BOD 22-01.

Required actions

CISA recommends the same actions against the entirety of agencies’ infrastructure. CISA will issue supplemental direction applicable to broader agency-owned information technologies and operational technologies as the situation evolves. The actions apply to agency applications in any information system, including an information system used or operated by another entity on behalf of an agency, that collects, processes, stores, transmits, disseminates, or otherwise maintains agency information.

By 5 pm EST on December 23, 2021:

  1. Enumerate all solution stacks accepting data input from the internet.
  2. Evaluate all software assets in identified solution stacks against the CISA-managed GitHub repository to determine whether Log4j is present in those assets and if so, whether those assets are affected by the vulnerability.
    1. If the software product is not listed in the repository, request addition by submitting a “pull” request using the link on the GitHub page.
  3. For all software assets that agencies identify as affected by CVE-2021-44228:
  4. Update assets for which patches have been provided. Remediation timelines prescribed in BOD 22-01 “may be adjusted in the case of grave risk to the Federal Enterprise.” Given the criticality of CVE-2021-44228, agencies must immediately patch any vulnerable internet-facing devices for which patches are available, under an emergency change window.
  5.  OR
  6. Mitigate the risk of vulnerability exploitation using one of mitigating measures provided.
  7.  OR
  8. Remove affected software assets from agency networks.
  9. For all solution stacks containing software that agencies identified as affected: assume compromise, identify common post-exploit sources and activity, and persistently investigate and monitor for signs of malicious activity and anomalous traffic patterns (e.g., JDNI LDAP/RMI outbound traffic, DMZ systems initiating outbound connections).

 By 5 pm EST on December 28, 2021:

  1. Report all affected software applications identified in (3) above using the provided template, including:
    1. Vendor name
    2. Application name and version
    3. Action taken (e.g. updated, mitigated, removed from agency network)
  2. Confirm that your agency’s Internet-accessible IP addresses on file with CISA are up to date via email.

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    Erdem Yasar is a news editor at Cloud7 News. Erdem started his career by writing video game reviews in 2007 for PC World magazine while he was studying computer engineering. In the following years, he focused on software development with various programming languages. After his graduation, he continued to work as an editor for several major tech-related websites and magazines. During the 2010s, Erdem Yasar shifted his focus to cloud computing, hosting, and data centers as they were becoming more popular topics in the tech industry. Erdem Yasar also worked with various industry-leading tech companies as a content creator by writing blog posts and other articles. Prior to his role at Cloud7 News, Erdem was the managing editor of T3 Magazine.

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