CVE-2021-37942

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

7.8

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.094

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-37942 are fixed in Elastic - apm-agent-parent 1.27.1	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-37942 are fixed in Elastic - elastic-apm-agent 1.27.1	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-37942 are fixed in Elastic - apm-agent-parent for Linux 1.27.1	Linux
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-37942 are fixed in Elastic - elastic-apm-agent for Linux 1.27.1	Linux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234