Among other reasons 4.19.0 includes CASSJAVA-53 which updates the version of Guava used in the shaded Java artifact. This addresses the following CVEs:
CVE-2020-8908
CVE-2023-2976
Note that 4.19.0 also brought the old java-driver-shaded-guava artifact into the source tree so we'll likely have to do some re-working of dependencies generally here.