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Find out why Spring4Shell was apparently not as impactful a security problem as many had at first feared, and why it’s on the cyber community as a whole to do better.

As web servers and cloud services get attacked, here are some steps to protect against the Spring4Shell RCE vulnerability.

More tools to identify vulnerable applications and options to mitigate the risk from Spring4Shell are also now available.

Internet scan indicates hundreds of thousands of vulnerable installations, while data from the major Java repository suggests millions, firms say.

More tools to identify vulnerable applications and options to mitigate the risk from Spring4Shell are also now available.

Other big name vendors investigating.

Security researchers says while Spring4Shell may not be Log4Shell, it’s still a critical vulnerability and security teams need to do the patch and follow the remediation recommendations.

Concern that evolving exploits will hit unpatched applications.

Initial analysis indicates that the bug may not be as severe as Log4Shell

The exploit requires a specific nonstandard configuration to work, limiting the danger it poses, but future research could turn up more broadly usable attacks.