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Critical ALAS2-2026-3963 4 CVEs

Critical: amazon-ssm-agent security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Sep 30, 2026 · Updated Sep 30, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-89049: A server-side request forgery issue due to improper validation of equivalent address representations in the port forwarding to remote hosts functionality in Amazon AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) before 3.3.4851.0 on all platforms might allow an authenticated remote user to bypass the remote destination denylist and reach link-local endpoints, potentially obtaining the temporary IAM role credentials of a managed instance and acting with that role's permissions from outside the instance, via a crafted destination host value that uses an alternate representation of a denied link-local address. To remediate this issue, users should upgrade to version 3.3.4851.0 or later. CVE-2026-71557: go-git is an extensible git implementation library written in pure Go. Prior to 5.19.2 and 6.0.0-alpha.5, reference names are not sanitized before being used to construct on-disk paths under the reference storage directory, so a maliciously crafted reference name (for example containing directory-traversal sequences) can cause go-git to write files outside the intended reference storage directory. Versions 5.19.2 and 6.0.0-alpha.5 fix the issue. CVE-2026-71556: go-git is an extensible git implementation library written in pure Go. Prior to 5.19.2 and 6.0.0-alpha.5, worktree operations (including checkout, status, and add) resolve symbolic links inside the working tree without confining resolution to the worktree boundary, so a maliciously crafted repository containing a symlink can cause go-git to read from or write to files outside the intended working directory when the repository is cloned and its worktree operations are used. Versions 5.19.2 and 6.0.0-alpha.5. CVE-2026-42505: Handshakes which used Encrypted Client Hello could be de-anonymized by a passive network observer due to a disclosure of pre-shared key identities in the unencrypted client hello.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 amazon-ssm-agent 0:3.3.5226.0-1.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 4

  • Critical 9.9

    Server-side request forgery in the Session Manager port forwarding functionality in AWS Systems Manager Agent

    A server-side request forgery issue due to improper validation of equivalent address representations in the port forwarding to remote hosts functionality in Amazon AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) before 3.3.4851.0 on all platforms might allow an authent…

  • High 7.1

    go-git: Worktree operations may follow symlinks

    go-git is an extensible git implementation library written in pure Go. Prior to 5.19.2 and 6.0.0-alpha.5, worktree operations (including checkout, status, and add) resolve symbolic links inside the working tree without confining resolution to the worktree bou…

  • Medium 6.3
    CVE-2026-71557 Public exploit

    go-git: Malicious reference names may modify files outside the reference storage

    go-git is an extensible git implementation library written in pure Go. Prior to 5.19.2 and 6.0.0-alpha.5, reference names are not sanitized before being used to construct on-disk paths under the reference storage directory, so a maliciously crafted reference …

  • Medium 5.3

    Invoking Encrypted Client Hello privacy leak in crypto/tls

    Handshakes which used Encrypted Client Hello could be de-anonymized by a passive network observer due to a disclosure of pre-shared key identities in the unencrypted client hello.

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-42505.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-71556.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-71557.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-89049.html