GHSA-5xqm-hc45-f2g2HighCVSS 7.0

APM Java Agent Local Privilege Escalation issue

Published
November 22, 2023
Last Modified
September 30, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 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.

🎯 Affected products2

  • maven/co.elastic.apm:apm-agent-parent:>= 1.18.0, < 1.27.1
  • maven/co.elastic.apm:elastic-apm-agent:>= 1.18.0, < 1.27.1

🔗 References (4)