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CVE-2026-85656 - OS command injection in Amazon log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatch

Severity not listed 2 CVEs Published Oct 21, 2026 at 9:41 PM UTC

Summary

Bulletin ID: 2026-098-AWS

Scope: AWS

Content Type: Important (requires attention)

Publication Date: 09/04/2026 10:30 AM PDT

Description:

log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatch is a tool which injects a Java agent into a running JVM process. The agent will attempt to patch the lookup() method of all loaded org.apache.logging.log4j.core.lookup.JndiLookup instances to unconditionally return the string "Patched JndiLookup::lookup()". It is designed to address the CVE-2021-44228 remote code execution issue in Log4j without restarting the Java process.

We identified CVE-2026-85656, an OS command injection issue in the log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatch package in Amazon Linux before 1.3-9.amzn2 might allow a local user to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges via a Java process whose executable path contains embedded newline characters.

Impacted versions: <=1.3-8.amzn2

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Products covered

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Remediation

The agent will attempt to patch the lookup() method of all loaded org.apache.logging.log4j.core.lookup.JndiLookup instances to unconditionally return the string "Patched JndiLookup::lookup()".

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