RCE exploitation at scale

On-call incidentHard50 min

Your task

A new critical CVE drops for a Java logging library you use widely (RCE via a crafted log string, similar to Log4Shell). Within 2 hours your WAF logs show inbound requests containing '${jndi:ldap://...}' patterns to your public APIs. One internal host's EDR flags an outbound LDAP+HTTP connection to an attacker server followed by a curl pulling a binary. Your service mesh has 200+ Java services; you don't have a clean inventory of which embed the vulnerable version. How do you triage, contain, and remediate at scale under active exploitation?

It covers

  • Log4shell
  • Rce exploitation