Security Advisory

CVE-2021-37942

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-11-22 01:33:48
Last updated 2024-08-04 01:30:09
Assigner elastic
CVSS score 7.0
State PUBLISHED

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.