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Further development of this tool will continue at corretto/hotpatch-for-apache-log4j2.

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Log4jPatch

This is a POC of a simple tool which injects a Java agent into a running JVM process. The agent will patch the lookup() method of all loaded org.apache.logging.log4j.core.lookup.JndiLookup instances to unconditionally return the string "Patched JndiLookup::lookup()". This should fix the CVE-2021-44228 remote code execution vulnerability in Log4j without restarting the Java process.

This has been currently only tested with JDK 8 & 11!

Disclaimer: this code is provided in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty!

Building

JDK 8

javac -XDignore.symbol.file=true -cp <java-home>/lib/tools.jar Log4jPatch.java

JDK 11

javac --add-exports java.base/jdk.internal.org.objectweb.asm=ALL-UNNAMED Log4jPatch.java

Running

JDK 8

java -cp .:<java-home>/lib/tools.jar Log4jPatch <java-pid>

JDK 11

java Log4jPatch <java-pid>

Known issues

If you get an error like:

Exception in thread "main" com.sun.tools.attach.AttachNotSupportedException: The VM does not support the attach mechanism
	at jdk.attach/sun.tools.attach.HotSpotAttachProvider.testAttachable(HotSpotAttachProvider.java:153)
	at jdk.attach/sun.tools.attach.AttachProviderImpl.attachVirtualMachine(AttachProviderImpl.java:56)
	at jdk.attach/com.sun.tools.attach.VirtualMachine.attach(VirtualMachine.java:207)
	at Log4jPatch.loadInstrumentationAgent(Log4jPatch.java:115)
	at Log4jPatch.main(Log4jPatch.java:139)

this means that your JVM is refusing any kind of help because it is running with -XX:+DisableAttachMechanism.