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CVE-2021-37942

Estado: ModificadaAlta (7.8)—

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.

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Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)

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Tecnologías afectadas (1)

Elastic — APM Java Agent

CWE

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