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by marginalia_nu 1474 days ago
The difference with external dependencies is that they are in a sense independent from your code. The real devastating aspect with log4shell is that log4j couples and integrates itself with deployed code.

You can't just upgrade log4j without pushing a new release of your applications in the way you can say roll out an updated nginx or logrotate or kibana or whatever.