CVE-2026-85656

An OS command injection issue in the log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatch package in Amazon Linux before 1.3-9 might allow a local user to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges via a Java process whose executable path contains embedded newline characters.

Score

CVSS 4.0 8.5 High

Status

Awaiting Analysis - ff89ba41-3aa1-4d27-914a-91399e9639e5

Published

2026-09-04

Last modified

2026-09-04

Weaknesses

CWE-78

Affected products

• Log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatch (Amazon)

References

• https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS2-2026-3784.html
• https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-098-aws/