Elasticsearch privilege escalation (Elastic Elasticsearch)

CVE-2021-37937
MEDIUM 5.9

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.71 % · percentile 54 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
elastic
NVD status
Modified

Description

An issue was found with how API keys are created with the Fleet-Server service account. When an API key is created with a service account, it is possible that the API key could be created with higher privileges than intended. Using this vulnerability, a compromised Fleet-Server service account could escalate themselves to a super-user.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nelastic
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NNVD · security@elastic.co (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Elastic · Elasticsearchaffected 7.13.0 < 7.14.0

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD