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CVE-2021-37941

Elastic / APM Java Agent PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Elastic / APM Java Agentaffected 1.10.0 through 1.26.0

CWE

CWE-269

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

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