Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Affecting org.elasticsearch.plugin:x-pack-core package, versions [8.10.0,8.14.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGELASTICSEARCHPLUGIN-7217826
  • published 7 Jun 2024
  • disclosed 6 Jun 2024
  • credit René Kalff

How to fix?

Upgrade org.elasticsearch.plugin:x-pack-core to version 8.14.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor via the Remote Cluster Search Cross Cluster API Key. If a cross-cluster API key restricts search for a given index using the query or the field_security parameter, and the same cross-cluster API key also grants replication for the same index, the search restrictions are not enforced during cross cluster search operations and search results may include documents and terms that should not be returned.

Note:

This issue only affects the API key based security model for remote clusters 4 that was previously a beta feature and is released as GA with 8.14.0.

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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Red Hat

6.5 medium