CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-105240
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-10-06
- Last modified
- 2026-10-09
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-158
Description
Improper Neutralization of Null Byte or NUL Character vulnerability in the OutputDebugStringAppender of Apache log4net.
A NUL character in logged content ended the debug output record at that point, so everything the layout rendered after it, including exception text and trailing fields, was silently lost. A party whose data reaches a log message could hide the rest of that record. Only applications on Windows that use OutputDebugStringAppender are affected.
This issue affects Apache log4net: from 1.2.9 before 3.5.0.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.5.0, which fixes the issue.
Affected configurations
• apache log4net (>= 1.2.9 < 3.5.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-158 Improper Neutralization of Null Byte or NUL Character weakness
References
- https://github.com/apache/logging-log4net/commit/6046fe9d7f353b49fe995361c071ec2eea8f7ef6 Patch
- https://github.com/apache/logging-log4net/pull/315 Patch
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/gyw2d4ppy82t1vlpdknkfd1nmzp21z17 Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/10/07/18 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory