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2 actionable advisories, newest first. Withdrawn advisories and news are excluded. Coverage is partial.

  1. Medium, CVSS 6.9PyPIAmendedPublished

    Elastic APM agent for Python client CGI proxy redirection flaw

    CVE-2019-7617 · GHSA-22jh-6gx8-f944

    Affected
    • PyPI elastic-apm < 5.1.0
    Fixed in
    5.1.0· Vendor fix available
    Issue
    When the Elastic APM agent for Python versions before 5.1.0 is run as a CGI script, there is a variable name clash flaw if a remote attacker can control the proxy header. This could result in an attacker redirecting collected APM data to a proxy of their choosing.

    Recommended action: Upgrade to 5.1.0 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.

    Sources:osv.dev (1)github.com (2)Source checked Evidence →
  2. High, CVSS 7.8PyPIAmendedPublished

    APM Java Agent Local Privilege Escalation

    CVE-2021-37941 · GHSA-r562-m862-63w3

    Affected
    • PyPI elastic-apm >= 1.10.0, < 1.27.0
    Fixed in
    1.27.0· Vendor fix available
    Issue
    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 profilinginferredspansenabled option

    Recommended action: Upgrade to 1.27.0 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.

    Sources:osv.dev (1)github.com (2)Source checked Evidence →