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CVE-2021-37942 is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8. No known exploits currently, and patches are available.
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Very low probability of exploitation
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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.
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| Elastic | Apm Java Agent |