Overview
- 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.
- Source
- bressers@elastic.co
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.8
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 1.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
- bressers@elastic.co
- CWE-269
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
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"matchCriteriaId": "15C93E89-E721-4610-BB53-39D2D24F58CB",
"versionEndIncluding": "1.27.0",
"versionStartIncluding": "1.18.0"
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"operator": "OR"
}
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