CVE-2026-85656

8.5 highEPSS 1.1%

High (8.5). EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

8.5 high

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 65% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-78
Published: 2026-09-04
Modified: 2026-09-08
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

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

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