Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File Affecting org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch package, versions [,8.18.7)[8.19.0,8.19.5)[9.0.0-beta1,9.0.8)[9.1.0,9.1.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGELASTICSEARCH-13517507
  • published10 Oct 2025
  • disclosed10 Oct 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Oct 2025

NewCVE-2025-37727  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-532  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch to version 8.18.7, 8.19.5, 9.0.8, 9.1.5 or higher.

Overview

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

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File via the reindex request due to redacting certain fields from the body of rest requests in audit logs. An attacker can obtain sensitive information by triggering audit logs that capture confidential data during request processing.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1