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CVE-2021-37942

APM Java Agent Local Privilege Escalation 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 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 (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Elastic / Elastic APM Java Agentaffected 1.18.0 before 1.27.0

CWE

CWE-269

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

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