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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.0 High

CVE-2021-37942

APM Java Agent Local Privilege Escalation

Description

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 products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Elastic Elastic APM Java Agent

Default version status: unaffected

  • 1.18.0 to < 1.27.0affected

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