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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
96.45% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGELASTICSEARCH-1324571
  • published13 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Jul 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Jul 2021

CVE-2021-22145  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

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.

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