12/14/2021

No issue for 3DViewStation: Critical vulnerability in log4j published (CVE-2021-44228)

There is a warning from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) entitled "Critical vulnerability in log4j published (CVE-2021-44228)". The logging library log4j is used in many Java applications. 

The good news is:
The Kisters 3DViewStation product family is not affected as it does not use any JAVA at all. This applies to all member, which are

  • 3DViewStation Desktop version
  • 3DViewStation WebViewer version
  • 3DViewStation VR-Edition
  • VisShare
  • Batchtool KAS

Hint:
As a customer or systems integrator you might use our products together with other software, like web servers, which might use JAVA. You will have to check.
We do not ship our products together with such web servers, except for VisShare. Here Nginx is used - which is free of JAVA as our own products are.