Use After Free Affecting amazon-efs-utils package, versions <0:2.4.0-1.amzn2


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.45% (64th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-AMAZONEFSUTILS-14882249
  • published7 Jan 2026
  • disclosed8 Apr 2025

Introduced: 8 Apr 2025

CVE-2025-3416  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 amazon-efs-utils to version 0:2.4.0-1.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2025-3076.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream amazon-efs-utils package and not the amazon-efs-utils package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

A flaw was found in OpenSSL's handling of the properties argument in certain functions. This vulnerability can allow use-after-free exploitation, which may result in undefined behavior or incorrect property parsing, leading to OpenSSL treating the input as an empty string.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1