What is GHSA-4p2r-rwww-hrf2?

GHSA-4p2r-rwww-hrf2 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. An OS command injection issue in the log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatch package in Amazon Linux before...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-4p2r-rwww-hrf2 cover?

GHSA-4p2r-rwww-hrf2 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-85656. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-4p2r-rwww-hrf2?

GHSA-4p2r-rwww-hrf2 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-4p2r-rwww-hrf2HighCVSS 7.8

An OS command injection issue in the log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatch package in Amazon Linux before...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

September 4, 2026

Last Modified

September 4, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-85656 →

📋 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.

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-85656
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS2-2026-3784.html
https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-098-aws
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4p2r-rwww-hrf2