[jira] [Resolved] (KARAF-7061) Add default message escaping for Log4J2 configuration to help prevent log injection attacks

["Jean-Baptiste Onofré (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KARAF-7061?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Jean-Baptiste Onofré resolved KARAF-7061.
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    Fix Version/s: 4.3.1
                   4.2.11
       Resolution: Fixed

> Add default message escaping for Log4J2 configuration to help prevent log injection attacks
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: KARAF-7061
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KARAF-7061
>             Project: Karaf
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: karaf
>    Affects Versions: 4.3.0, 4.2.10
>            Reporter: Serge Huber
>            Assignee: Jean-Baptiste Onofré
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: 4.2.11, 4.3.1
>
>
> As recommended in 
> https://www.linuxsecrets.com/owasp-wiki/index.php/Injection_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet_in_Java.html#Example_using_Log4j2
> to prevent log injections of CRLF or HTML code (which could be exploited if the logs are displayed in an HTML page), we should change the default log4j2 pattern in Karaf from:
> {code}
> log4j2.pattern = %d{ISO8601} | %-5p | %-16t | %-32c{1} | %X{bundle.id} - %X{bundle.name} - %X{bundle.version} | %m%n
> {code}
> to something like this:
> {code}
> log4j2.pattern = %d{ISO8601} | %-5p | %-16t | %-32c{1} | %X{bundle.id} - %X{bundle.name} - %X{bundle.version} | %encode{%.-500m}%n
> {code}
> See : 
> This would limit the message to 500 characters to prevent sending huge messages and will turn on the default HTML escaping which escapes for CRLF and any HTML tags such as <script>



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