VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-37942

CVSS score7 HIGH
EPSS probability0.25%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-11-22
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • security@elastic.co: CWE-269
  • nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo

Primary references