CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-37942

7.8 HIGH Published 2023-11-22 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-11-22
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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
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 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 configurations

• elastic apm java agent (>= 1.18.0 <= 1.27.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References