VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-85656

CVSS score8.5 HIGH

EPSS probability1.08%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2026-09-04

Last modified2026-09-08

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.