Improper Privilege Management The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package elasticsearch (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-ELASTICSEARCH-1129476
- published21 Mar 2026
- disclosed18 Aug 2020
Introduced: 18 Aug 2020
CVE-2020-7018 (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.
Elastic Enterprise Search before 7.9.0 contain a credential exposure flaw in the App Search interface. If a user is given the �developer� role, they will be able to view the administrator API credentials. These credentials could allow the developer user to conduct operations with the same permissions of the App Search administrator.