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title: "Discussion on \"How Log4J Turned Into A Pandemic With Over 840,000 Attacks within 72 hours?\" | Hashnode"
description: "Discussion on \"How Log4J Turned Into A Pandemic With Over 840,000 Attacks within 72 hours?\". A vulnerability in Log4J allows an attacker to trigger an arbitrary code execution remotely if he has the ability to submit data to an application that uses the log4j library to log the event. \nThis attack can be performed without being authenticated..."
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# [How Log4J Turned Into A Pandemic With Over 840,000 Attacks within 72 hours?](https://posts.hashnode.dev/how-log4j-turned-into-a-pandemic-over-840000-attacks?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

A vulnerability in Log4J allows an attacker to trigger an arbitrary code execution remotely if he has the ability to submit data to an application that uses the log4j library to log the event. This attack can be performed without being authenticated...

Jan 17, 2022 · 10 min read · posts.hashnode.dev  
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