CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-37942

Published: Nov 22, 2023 | Modified: Nov 30, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A local privilege escalation issue was found with the APM Java agent, where a user on the system could attach a malicious plugin to an application running the APM Java agent. By using this vulnerability, an attacker could execute code at a potentially higher level of permissions than their user typically has access to.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Apm_java_agent Elastic 1.18.0 (including) 1.27.0 (including)

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