Elastic Agent Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere

published 2025-05-01 18 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-13061

cvss: 4.4; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 10%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

Patch / fix

links 1

discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-7-17-25-and-8-15-4-security-update-esa-202… advisory

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 18 mo ago (2025-05-01)

Exploit prediction

0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	4.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Elastic Elastic Agent

Classification

Weakness

CWE-829 Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere

References

discuss.elastic.co /t/elastic-agent-7-17-25-and-8-15-4-security-update-esa-2024-39/377708
patch, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2024-52976
NVD CVE-2024-52976

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.

Summary