CVE-2024-52976 (GCVE-0-2024-52976)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-01 13:03 – Updated: 2025-05-01 15:33
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Summary
Inclusion of functionality from an untrusted control sphere in Elastic Agent subprocess, osqueryd, allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code via parameter injection. An attacker requires local access and the ability to modify osqueryd configurations.
Severity ?
4.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-829 - Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Elastic Elastic Agent Affected: 7.0.0 , ≤ 7.17.24 (semver)
Affected: 8.0.0 , ≤ 8.15.3 (semver)
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