QID 730232

Date Published: 2021-10-14

QID 730232: Elasticsearch Access Control Vulnerability (ESA-2021-18)

Elasticsearch is a search server based on Lucene that provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents.

Affected with following vulnerability:
CVE-2021-22147: A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch where document and field level security was not applied to searchable snapshots. This could lead to an authenticated user gaining access to information that they are unauthorized to view.

Affected Versions:
Elasticsearch versions prior to 7.14.0

QID detection logic:
Checks the vulnerable versions of ElasticSearch.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an authenticated user gaining access to information that they are unauthorized to view.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 6.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 4 severity.
  • Solution
    Customers are advised to upgrade to Elasticsearch version 7.14.0 to remediate this vulnerability.
    Vendor References

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    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    ESA-2021-18 URL Logo www.elastic.co/community/security/

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