CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-85656

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Sep 4, 2026Sources checked Oct 27, 2026

7.8HIGHCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-85656 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 7.8. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

What to do next

Remediation and response

AWS Security Bulletins guidance

Vendor revision: Oct 21, 2026

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()".

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS1.1%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-85656?

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.

Source: NVD