Security Advisory

CVE-2026-85656

7.8
HIGH

Vulnerability 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.
Published Date September 4, 2026
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory