Log4jDetect

WhiteSource Log4j Detect is a free CLI tool that quickly scans your projects to find vulnerable Log4j versions containing the following known CVEs:

• CVE-2021-45046
• CVE-2021-44228
• CVE-2021-4104
• CVE-2021-45105

It provides the exact path to direct and indirect dependencies, along with the fixed version for speedy remediation.

The supported packages managers are:

• gradle
• maven

In addition, the tool will search for vulnerable files with the .jar extension.

Prerequisites:

• Download the log4j-detect binary based on your OS platform (see installation steps below)

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NOTE

1. For mac users, if the following message appears: "log4j-detect can't be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software", please follow the steps described here

2. The relevant binaries must be installed for the scan to work, i.e:

   • gradle if the scanned project is a gradle project (contains a settings.gradle or a build.gradle file)
   • mvn if the scanned project is a maven project (contains a pom.xml file)

3. Building the projects before scanning will improve scan time and reduce potential scan errors

   • maven projects must be built prior to scanning, e.g. with the following command:

     mvn install

   • It is not necessary to run gradle build prior to scanning a gradle project, but that will greatly decrease the scan time

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Usage

In order to scan your project, simply run the following command:

log4j-detect scan -d PROJECT_DIR

The folder can include source code that uses maven/gradle in the project, as well as binaries (i.e jar files)

Installation

Linux

ARCH=amd64 # or ARCH=arm64
wget "https://github.com/whitesource/log4j-detect-distribution/releases/latest/download/log4j-detect-1.2.1-linux-$ARCH.tar.gz"
tar -xzvf log4j-detect-1.2.1-linux-$ARCH.tar.gz
chmod +x log4j-detect
./log4j-detect -h

Mac

ARCH=amd64 # or ARCH=arm64 
wget "https://github.com/whitesource/log4j-detect-distribution/releases/latest/download/log4j-detect-1.2.1-darwin-$ARCH.tar.gz"
tar -xzvf log4j-detect-1.2.1-darwin-$ARCH.tar.gz
chmod +x log4j-detect
./log4j-detect -h

Windows

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://github.com/whitesource/log4j-detect-distribution/releases/latest/download/log4j-detect-1.2.1-windows-amd64.zip" -OutFile "log4j-detect.zip"
Expand-Archive -LiteralPath 'log4j-detect.zip'
cd log4j-detect
.\log4j-detect.exe -h