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CVE-2026-85656

OS command injection in Amazon log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatch

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.3-9.amzn2
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Amazon log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatch

    fixed in 1.3-9.amzn2

References 2

alas.aws.amazon.com

aws.amazon.com