CVE-2021-37942

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-37942
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-37942.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-37942
Aliases
Published
2023-11-22T02:15:42Z
Modified
2025-02-19T03:20:43.263105Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Git / github.com/elastic/apm-agent-java

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-java
Events

Affected versions

Other

stable

v1.*

v1.18.0
v1.18.1
v1.19.0
v1.20.0
v1.21.0
v1.22.0
v1.23.0
v1.24.0
v1.25.0
v1.26.0
v1.27.0