Re: Log4j mitigation

["Jörg Kost" <jk () ip-clear de>]

It's not true.
It can pull from other ports, URLs, make DNS calls, and seems to 
evaluate even from environment variables.
It's a "virtual machine".

On 13 Dec 2021, at 11:54, Jean St-Laurent via NANOG wrote:

> Well if you look to the right you won't see it, but if you look to the 
> left you will see it.
>
> Meaning, that for a successful attack to work, the infected host needs 
> to first download a payload from ldap.
>
> And ldap runs on port 389/636.
>
> You probably can't see the log4j vulnerability in the https, but you 
> should be able to see your servers querying weird stuff on internet on 
> port 389/636.
>
> Just don't allow your important hosts to fetch payload on internet on 
> port 389/636.
>
> Et voila! Look to the left, not to the right.
>
> Jean