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CVE 2021-44228 Remediation for HDP 2.6.5 and Ambari 2.6.2.0

As mentioned in Cloudera Technical Service Bulletin 2021-545 (Critical vulnerability in log4j2 CVE-2021-44228), the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) and Ambari are impacted by the recent Apache Log4j2 vulnerability. As per that bulletin:

The Apache Security team has released a security advisory for CVE-2021-44228 which affects Apache Log4j2. A malicious user could exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the user or service account running the affected software. Software products using log4j versions 2.0 through 2.14.1 are affected and log4j 1.x is not affected. Cloudera is making short-term workarounds available for affected software and is in the process of creating new releases containing fixes for this CVE.