Privilege Escalation Affecting org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch package, versions [,5.6.15) [6.0.0, 6.6.1)
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- published 2 Sep 2019
- disclosed 25 Mar 2019
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 25 Mar 2019
CVE-2019-7611 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch to version 5.6.15, 6.6.1 or higher.
Overview
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch is a Distributed, RESTful Search Engine.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. A permission issue was found in Elasticsearch when Field Level Security and Document Level Security are disabled and the _aliases, _shrink, or _split endpoints are used .
If the elasticsearch.yml file has xpack.security.dls_fls.enabled set to false, certain permission checks are skipped when users perform one of the actions mentioned above, to make existing data available under a new index/alias name. This could result in an attacker gaining additional permissions against a restricted index.