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CVE-2021-37942

HIGH CVSS: 7.0 Published: 2023-11-22 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Elastic Apm Java Agent

Weakness Type

CWE-269, NVD-CWE-noinfo

References