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CVE-2021-37942: APM Java Agent Local Privilege Escalation

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-11-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

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.

Affected products

• Elastic APM Java Agent: from 1.18.0 through 1.27.0

References

• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-java-agent-security-update/291355
• https://www.elastic.co/community/security
• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-java-agent-security-update/291355
• https://www.elastic.co/community/security

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