HotPatch Daemonset version 1.1-12 for AWS kubernetes clusters released for Log4Shell is vulnerable to container escape and reverse shell.
AWS has provided two method to patch this vulnerability. The first is by using the yaml example provided, and the more recent method is an RPM that updates JVM installs. For more information, follow the documentation provided below.
References:
https://github.com/aws-samples/kubernetes-log4j-cve-2021-44228-node-agent
https://github.com/corretto/hotpatch-for-apache-log4j2