CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-37941

7.8 HIGH Published 2021-12-08 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-12-08
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-269

Description

A local privilege escalation issue was found with the APM Java agent, where a user on the system could attach a malicious file to an application running with the APM Java agent. Using this vector, a malicious or compromised user account could use the agent to run commands at a higher level of permissions than they possess. This vulnerability affects users that have set up the agent via the attacher cli 3, the attach API 2, as well as users that have enabled the profiling_inferred_spans_enabled option

Affected configurations

• elastic apm agent (>= 1.10.0 <= 1.26.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References