CVE-2021-37942 Information

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.

Reference

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