CVE-2021-37941

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-37941
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-12-08 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-12-14 00:23:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-269

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Elastic Apm Agent All All All All

References

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APM Java Agent Security Update - Security Announcements - Discuss the Elastic Stack MISC discuss.elastic.co
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