CVE-2021-37942

Publication date

2023-11-22 01:33:48

Family

elastic

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.