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.
| Package (Ecosystem) | Introduced | Fixed | Limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| co.elastic.apm:apm-agent-parent(Maven) | 1.18.0 | 1.27.1 | N/A |
| co.elastic.apm:elastic-apm-agent(Maven) | 1.18.0 | 1.27.1 | N/A |
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