Elastic Apm Java Agent vulnerabilities

2 vulnerabilities

Known vulnerabilities in Elastic Apm Java Agent, newest first, with CVSS severity, EPSS, KEV listings, ransomware use and the affected versions.

7.8CVE-2021-37942elasticapm_java_agent+3
EPSS score
0.25%
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.7.8CVE-2021-37941elasticapm_agent+2
EPSS score
0.21%
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