Blog - Impact of Log4j Vulnerability for the Rock Community

Published: Dec 13, 2021

For those worried about the newly reported Log4j vulnerability there is little to fear as far as Rock is concerned. The Log4j library is a Java library and Rock is entirely C#. We use an alternative library for logging called Serilog.

For churches using Elasticsearch as a universal search provider (we only know of a handful) there may be a possibility for exposure. The server running Elasticsearch runs on a separate server than the Rock server. While the latest version of Elasticsearch is not vulnerable to the exploit , there is no mention of the version of Elasticsearch supported by Rock (v2.x) in their article. Because of this Spark would highly recommend that the ElasticSearch server be behind a firewall (this is a best-practice) until there is an official statement from Elasticsearch.