CVE-2021-4104 vulnerability and AppWorx / Automic Application Manager

Products

• CA Automic Applications Manager (AM)

Issue/Introduction

Is Applications Manager vulnerable to CVE-2021-4104?

Environment

Release : 9.3x, 9.4x, 9.5x

Component : Applications Manager

Resolution

Applications Manager does NOT use JMSAppender which means Applications Manager is NOT vulnerable to CVE-2021-4104

Additional Information

This issue only affects Log4j 1.2 when specifically configured to use JMSAppender, which is not the default. Apache Log4j 1.2 reached end of life in August 2015. Users should upgrade to Log4j 2 as it addresses numerous other issues from the previous versions.