https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log4Shell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log4Shell > The vulnerability had existed unnoticed since 2013 and was privately disclose

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log4Shell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log4Shell > The vulnerability had existed unnoticed since 2013 and was privately disclosed to the Apache Software Foundation, of which Log4j is a project, by Chen Zhaojun of Alibaba Cloud's security team on 24 November 2021. Before an official CVE identifier was made available on December 10th, 2021. your Link dated 12/13/2021 says: > Log4Shell is the name given to a critical zero-day vulnerability that surfaced on Thursday when it was exploited in the wild in remote-code compromises against Minecraft servers. Which would have been around the 9th of Dec.