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Medium ALAS2023-2026-1398 1 CVE

Moderate: log4j security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Feb 16, 2026 · Updated Feb 18, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-68161: The Socket Appender in Apache Log4j Core versions 2.0-beta9 through 2.25.2 does not perform TLS hostname verification of the peer certificate, even when the verifyHostName https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/appenders/network.html#SslConfiguration-attr-verifyHostName configuration attribute or the log4j2.sslVerifyHostName https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/systemproperties.html#log4j2.sslVerifyHostName system property is set to true. This issue may allow a man-in-the-middle attacker to intercept or redirect log traffic under the following conditions: * The attacker is able to intercept or redirect network traffic between the client and the log receiver. * The attacker can present a server certificate issued by a certification authority trusted by the Socket Appender's configured trust store (or by the default Java trust store if no custom trust store is configured). Users are advised to upgrade to Apache Log4j Core version 2.25.3, which addresses this issue. As an alternative mitigation, the Socket Appender may be configured to use a private or restricted trust root to limit the set of trusted certificates.

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 log4j 0:2.17.2-1.amzn2023.0.5
Amazon Linux · 2023 log4j-jcl 0:2.17.2-1.amzn2023.0.5
Amazon Linux · 2023 log4j-slf4j 0:2.17.2-1.amzn2023.0.5

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-68161.html