# Log4Shell
**Domain:** Software vulnerability
**Doc Type:** Developed Wiki Node
**Maturity:** Developed
**Collection:** [[collections/Gamification|Gamification Collection]]
## Definition
**Log4Shell** is the critical remote-code-execution vulnerability disclosed in 2021 in Apache Log4j, tracked as CVE-2021-44228.
## Significance
Its discovery and reporting chronology became a test case for coordinated disclosure, vendor responsibility, and national vulnerability-governance systems.
## Sources
- [[articles/gamification/Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed|Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed]]
- [Primary or institutional source](https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/security.html)
## Routes
[[wiki/Alibaba Cloud|Alibaba Cloud]] · [[wiki/RMSV|RMSV]] · [[wiki/Bug Bounty|Bug Bounty]] · [[articles/gamification/Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed|Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed]]