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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-34480 (CVE-2026-34480)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-04-10 16:16 – Updated: 2026-10-17 09:40 – Source website

Details

Apache Log4j Core's XmlLayout https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/layouts.html#XmlLayout , in versions up to and including 2.25.3, fails to sanitize characters forbidden by the XML 1.0 specification https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#charsets producing invalid XML output whenever a log message or MDC value contains such characters. The impact depends on the StAX implementation in use: * JRE built-in StAX: Forbidden characters are silently written to the output, producing malformed XML. Conforming parsers must reject such documents with a fatal error, which may cause downstream log-processing systems to drop the affected records. * Alternative StAX implementations (e.g., Woodstox https://github.com/FasterXML/woodstox , a transitive dependency of the Jackson XML Dataformat module): An exception is thrown during the logging call, and the log event is never delivered to its intended appender, only to Log4j's internal status logger. Users are advised to upgrade to Apache Log4j Core 2.25.4, which corrects this issue by sanitizing forbidden characters before XML output.

Severity

6.9 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-34480	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-34480	REPORT
	https://lists.apache.org/thread/5x0hcnng0chhghp6j…	REPORT
	https://logging.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2026-34480	REPORT
	https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4077	REPORT
	https://logging.apache.org/cyclonedx/vdr.xml	REPORT
	https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/layou…	REPORT
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/10/9	REPORT

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CVE-2026-34480 (GCVE-0-2026-34480)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-10 15:42 – Updated: 2026-04-10 17:45

Title

Apache Log4j Core: Silent log event loss in XmlLayout due to unescaped XML 1.0 forbidden characters

Summary

Severity

6.9 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-04-10 17:43 UTC

CWE

CWE-116 - Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

Assigner

apache CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 1088 records in the last 180 days details

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4077	patch
https://logging.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2026-34480	vendor-advisory
https://logging.apache.org/cyclonedx/vdr.xml	vendor-advisory
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/layou…	related
https://lists.apache.org/thread/5x0hcnng0chhghp6j…	vendor-advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/10/9

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Apache Software Foundation	Apache Log4j Core	Affected: 2.0-alpha1 , < 2.25.4 (maven) Affected: 3.0.0-alpha1 , ≤ 3.0.0-beta3 (maven) cpe:2.3:a:apache:log4j::::::::

Credits

Ap4sh (Samy Medjahed) and Ethicxz (Eliott Laurie) (original reporters) jabaltarik1 (independently)

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