Missing Authorization Affecting org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch package, versions [,7.17.1) [8.0.0,8.0.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGELASTICSEARCH-2431238
  • published 22 Mar 2022
  • disclosed 28 Feb 2022
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch to version 7.17.1, 8.0.1 or higher.

Overview

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

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Authorization by allowing users with Read access to the Uptime feature to modify alerting rules. That being said, any new or modified rules would not be enabled, and a user with this privilege could not modify alerting connectors.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

4.3 medium
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Red Hat

4.3 medium