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Elastic Agent: vulnerabilities and CVEs

Elastic Agent has 6 published vulnerabilities, 1 of them in the last 12 months. 0 are rated critical and 0 are listed by CISA as actively exploited.

CVEs6
Last 12 months1
Critical0
Actively exploited0

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Latest vulnerabilities

CVESeverityEPSSActive exploitationPublishedDescription
CVE-2026-78604High (7.8)0.15%—Sep 2, 2026
Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource (CWE-732) in Elastic Agent can lead to local privilege escalation via Replace Binaries (CAPEC-642). On Windows systems where Elastic Agent is installed in…
CVE-2024-52976High (7.8)0.20%—May 1, 2025
Inclusion of functionality from an untrusted control sphere in Elastic Agent subprocess, osqueryd, allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code via parameter injection. An attacker requires local access and the…
CVE-2023-46669High (7.1)0.20%—May 1, 2025
Exposure of sensitive information to local unauthorized actors in Elastic Agent and Elastic Security Endpoint can lead to loss of confidentiality and impersonation of Endpoint to the Elastic Stack. This issue was…
CVE-2024-37283Medium (6.5)0.56%—Aug 12, 2024
An issue was discovered whereby Elastic Agent will leak secrets from the agent policy elastic-agent.yml only when the log level is configured to debug. By default the log level is set to info, where no leak occurs.
CVE-2023-6687Medium (6.5)0.59%—Dec 12, 2023
An issue was discovered by Elastic whereby Elastic Agent would log a raw event in its own logs at the WARN or ERROR level if ingesting that event to Elasticsearch failed with any 4xx HTTP status code except 409 or 429.…
CVE-2023-31421High (7.5)0.32%—Oct 26, 2023
It was discovered that when acting as TLS clients, Beats, Elastic Agent, APM Server, and Fleet Server did not verify whether the server certificate is valid for the target IP address; however, certificate signature…

🎯 How it gets exploited (ATT&CK techniques)

  1. T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation1
  2. T1548.004 Elevated Execution with Prompt1

Number of CVEs of this technology mapped to each exploitation or primary-impact technique.

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