A lot of people were in that exact same situation. So many, that the original author of log4j 1.x released a fork to allow these people to keep using the old co

A lot of people were in that exact same situation. So many, that the original author of log4j 1.x released a fork to allow these people to keep using the old code while technically being "up to date" and free of known vulnerabilities: https://reload4j.qos.ch/ https://reload4j.qos.ch/