diff --git a/apm-agent-attach-cli/pom.xml b/apm-agent-attach-cli/pom.xml
index b65f614969..0a32cb6d85 100644
--- a/apm-agent-attach-cli/pom.xml
+++ b/apm-agent-attach-cli/pom.xml
@@ -179,8 +179,10 @@
                                         <!--
                                         Eliminating exposure to the log4j2 vulnerability related to the SMTP appender -
                                         https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9488#vulnCurrentDescriptionTitle
+                                        and any possibility of exploitation of https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68161
                                         -->
                                         <exclude>org/apache/logging/log4j/core/appender/SmtpAppender.class</exclude>
+                                        <exclude>org/apache/logging/log4j/core/appender/SocketAppender.class</exclude>
                                         <!--
                                         Strip out JndiLookup class to avoid any possibility of exploitation of CVE-2021-44228
                                         See: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44228
@@ -233,8 +235,10 @@
                                         <!--
                                         Eliminating exposure to the log4j2 vulnerability related to the SMTP appender -
                                         https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9488#vulnCurrentDescriptionTitle
+                                        and any possibility of exploitation of https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68161
                                         -->
                                         <exclude>org/apache/logging/log4j/core/appender/SmtpAppender.class</exclude>
+                                        <exclude>org/apache/logging/log4j/core/appender/SocketAppender.class</exclude>
                                         <!--
                                         Strip out JndiLookup class to avoid any possibility of exploitation of CVE-2021-44228
                                         See: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44228
diff --git a/apm-agent-builds/apm-agent/pom.xml b/apm-agent-builds/apm-agent/pom.xml
index 6b68fe581a..a5415d1a46 100644
--- a/apm-agent-builds/apm-agent/pom.xml
+++ b/apm-agent-builds/apm-agent/pom.xml
@@ -34,8 +34,10 @@
                                         <!--
                                         Eliminating exposure to the log4j2 vulnerability related to the SMTP appender -
                                         https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9488#vulnCurrentDescriptionTitle
+                                        and any possibility of exploitation of https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68161
                                         -->
                                         <exclude>org/apache/logging/log4j/core/appender/SmtpAppender.class</exclude>
+                                        <exclude>org/apache/logging/log4j/core/appender/SocketAppender.class</exclude>
                                         <!--
                                         Strip out JndiLookup class to avoid any possibility of exploitation of CVE-2021-44228
                                         See: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44228