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CVE-2021-37941

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-37941 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the Elastic APM Java agent. An authenticated local attacker can attach a malicious file to an application running with the agent, allowing them to execute commands with elevated permissions. This vulnerability has a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a low attack complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.10.0, <= 1.26.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:apm_agent:*:*:*:*:*:java:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
11.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0021 is in the 39th percentile among its peer group of 17,070 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: elastic-apmFixed in: 1.27.0

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-r562-m862-63w3high

APM Java Agent Local Privilege Escalation

Dec 9, 2021

References

discuss.elastic.co / t/apm-java-agent-security-update/289627
Vendor Advisory