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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: elastic

Published: 2023-11-22T01:33:48.984Z

Updated: 2024-08-04T01:30:09.172Z

Reserved: 2021-08-03T20:49:52.462Z

Link: CVE-2021-37942

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-11-22T02:15:42.220

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:16:07.267

Link: CVE-2021-37942

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