Vulnerability Report

CVE-2021-37941

Title: Elastic Apm Agent Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2021-37941.

CWE Category CWE-269
Published Date Dec 08, 2021
Modified Date Nov 21, 2024
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.8 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.03%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2021-37941: 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

Impacted Vendors

E
elastic 1

Reference Links

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-java-agent-security-update/289627 https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-java-agent-security-update/289627
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.8
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.4
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2021-37941 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector LOCAL
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.