Information Exposure Affecting org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch package, versions [7.10.0, 7.13.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Mature
    EPSS
    96.59% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGELASTICSEARCH-1324571
  • published 13 Jan 2022
  • disclosed 22 Jul 2021
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch to version 7.13.4 or higher.

Overview

org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch is a Distributed, RESTful Search Engine.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. A memory disclosure vulnerability was identified in Elasticsearch within its error reporting component. A user with the ability to submit arbitrary queries to Elasticsearch could submit a malformed query that would result in an error message returned containing previously used portions of a data buffer. This buffer could contain sensitive information such as Elasticsearch documents or authentication details.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
6.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

6.5 medium
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Red Hat

7.3 high