CVE-2024-52976

Elastic Agent Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere

State: Published
Severity: 4.4 Medium
Published: May 1, 2025
Updated: May 1, 2025
Reserved: Nov 18, 2024

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.4 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	elastic

Weaknesses

CWE-829 Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Elastic AgentElastic	7.0.0 through 7.17.24Affected 8.0.0 through 8.15.3Affected

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-7-17-25-and-8-15-4-security-update-esa-2024-39/377708

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