GHSA-r562-m862-63w3

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    GHSA-r562-m862-63w3

    Published: 9 Dec 2021Last Modified: 6 Jul 2026

    Summary: APM Java Agent Local Privilege Escalation

    Details: 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

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-37941, https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-java-agent-security-update/289627, https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: elastic-apm

    Purl: pkg:pypi/elastic-apm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 1.10.0
    Fixed -1.27.0

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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