What is GHSA-94g7-hpv8-h9qm?

GHSA-94g7-hpv8-h9qm is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Critical severity. Remote code injection in Log4j

Why does GHSA-94g7-hpv8-h9qm have no CVE ID yet?

GitHub Security Advisories published this advisory directly to customers before NVD assigned a CVE ID. This is the embargo-window disclosure pattern — vendors notify customers on day 0; NVD's public record follows days to weeks later.

Which products are affected by GHSA-94g7-hpv8-h9qm?

GHSA-94g7-hpv8-h9qm affects 2 products, including: maven/com.splunk.logging:splunk-library-javalogging:\u003e= 1.7.0, \u003c 1.11.1; maven/com.splunk.logging:splunk-library-javalogging:\u003c 1.6.2-0-0.

GHSA-94g7-hpv8-h9qmCriticalDisclosed before NVD

Remote code injection in Log4j

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

December 14, 2021

Last Modified

August 7, 2025

📋 Description

Impact

Logging untrusted or user controlled data with a vulnerable version of Log4J may result in Remote Code Execution (RCE) against your application. This includes untrusted data included in logged errors such as exception traces, authentication failures, and other unexpected vectors of user controlled input.

More Details: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jfh8-c2jp-5v3q

Patches

Version 1.11.1 of the Splunk Logging for Java library.

There is also a backport to version 1.6.2 released as a patch: 1.6.2-0-0.

Workarounds

If upgrading is not possible, then ensure the -Dlog4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=true system property is set on both client- and server-side components.

References

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jfh8-c2jp-5v3q

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

Open an issue in https://github.com/splunk/splunk-library-javalogging/issues
Email us at [email protected]

🎯 Affected products2

maven/com.splunk.logging:splunk-library-javalogging:>= 1.7.0, < 1.11.1
maven/com.splunk.logging:splunk-library-javalogging:< 1.6.2-0-0