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.
Remediation
References
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-java-agent-security-update/291355
https://www.elastic.co/community/security
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