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SCA: security update for elastic-apm (GHSA-r562-m862-63w3)
high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422704
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:- A local privilege escalation issue was found with the APM Java agent, where a user on the system could
attach a malicious file to an application running with the APM Java agent. Using this vector, a malicious
or compromised user account could use the agent to run commands at a higher level of permissions than they
possess. This vulnerability affects users that have set up the agent via the attacher cli 3, the attach
API 2, as well as users that have enabled the profiling_inferred_spans_enabled option (CVE-2021-37941)
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Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 422704
Version: Revision 1.4
Type: Local
Family: SCA Checks
Published: 3/28/2025
Updated: 7/2/2026
Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.9
Percentile: 57.15
Vendor
Vendor Severity: High
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.4
Temporal Score: 3.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-37941
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.8
Temporal Score: 6.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 12/9/2021
Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/8/2021
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2021-37941
cwe: CWE-269