Improper Privilege Management The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package elasticsearch  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-ELASTICSEARCH-1129454
  • published21 Mar 2026
  • disclosed18 Aug 2020

Introduced: 18 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-7019  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream elasticsearch package and not the elasticsearch package as distributed by Ubuntu.

In Elasticsearch before 7.9.0 and 6.8.12 a field disclosure flaw was found when running a scrolling search with Field Level Security. If a user runs the same query another more privileged user recently ran, the scrolling search can leak fields that should be hidden. This could result in an attacker gaining additional permissions against a restricted index.