Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2021-37941 First vendor Publication 2021-12-08
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2021-12-14

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 7.8
Base Score 7.8 Environmental Score 7.8
impact SubScore 5.9 Temporal Score 7.8
Exploitabality Sub Score 1.8
 
Attack Vector Local Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.4 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-37941

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 2

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
MISC https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-java-agent-security-update/289627

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Date Informations
2021-12-14 05:22:54
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2021-12-09 09:22:59
  • Multiple Updates
2021-12-09 00:22:54
  • First insertion