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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 18, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 29, 2023

Package

maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 7.6.0, < 7.11.0

Patched versions

7.11.0

Description

A document disclosure flaw was found in Elasticsearch versions after 7.6.0 and before 7.11.0 when Document or Field Level Security is used. Get requests do not properly apply security permissions when executing a query against a recently updated document. This affects documents that have been updated and not yet refreshed in the index. This could result in the search disclosing the existence of documents and fields the attacker should not be able to view.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 8, 2021
Reviewed Mar 12, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 18, 2021
Last updated Jan 29, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

0.059%
(26th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-22134

GHSA ID

GHSA-hwvv-438r-mhvj

Source code

No known source code
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