CVEs-PoC/2021/CVE-2021-37942.md

CVE-2021-37942

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.

POC

Reference

• https://www.elastic.co/community/security

Github

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