Zero-day-exploit in log4j2 which is part of elasticsearch

All updates are posted here: Apache Log4j2 Remote Code Execution (RCE) Vulnerability - CVE-2021-44228 - ESA-2021-31 - Security Announcements - Discuss the Elastic Stack

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