High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 4, 2026

CVE-2026-85656

Description

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.

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Affected products

Amazon/log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatchllm-fuzzy
Range: <1.3-9

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS2-2026-3784.htmlnvd
aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-098-aws/nvd

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