Critical 9.2 CVSS RCE Found in Amazon Redshift JDBC Driver

A critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-8178, CVSSv4 9.2) in Amazon Redshift JDBC Driver versions before 2.2.2 allows attackers who can influence JDBC connection strings to trigger unsafe class loading and execute arbitrary code in the application's JVM, potentially leading to full system compromise; AWS has patched the issue in version 2.2.2 and advises updating any forked or derivative code.