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CVE-2021-37942 A local privilege escalation issue was found with the APM Java agent, where a user on the system could attach a…

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 and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
Elastic APM Java Agent 1.18 1.18.0 → < 1.27.0 1.27.0
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