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
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-2577 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
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-r562-m862-63w3 APM Java Agent Local Privilege Escalation
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: elastic

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Updated: 2024-08-04T01:30:08.522Z

Reserved: 2021-08-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-37941

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Status : Modified

Published: 2021-12-08T22:15:08.677

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:16:07.073

Link: CVE-2021-37941

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