Detections
Analytics
CVE-2021-37942
high
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.
References
https://www.elastic.co/community/security
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-java-agent-security-update/291355