En bref
- CVE-2021-37941 est une vulnérabilité ÉLEVÉE (CVSS 7.8) touchant elastic-apm, apm agent (elastic).
- Probabilité d'exploitation dans les 30 prochains jours (EPSS) : 0.21%, plus élevée que 11.8% des vulnérabilités.
- Correctif : mettre à jour vers 1.27.0 ou plus récent.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|
| elastic-apm PyPI | ≥ 1.10.0, < 1.27.0
| 1.27.0
|
| apm agent | ≥ 1.10.0, ≤ 1.26.0
| No fix yet |
Description
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
NVD description
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
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