Incorrect Authorization in Elasticsearch Leading to Information Disclosure (Elastic Elasticsearch)

CVE-2026-56144
MEDIUM 5.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.32 % · percentile 25 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
elastic
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Elasticsearch can allow an authenticated user with limited index privileges to exploit insufficient authorization controls in the ingest simulation feature. By targeting indices they are not authorized to access directly, the user can cause those indices' configured ingest pipelines to execute and return their output, potentially disclosing data processed or enriched by those pipelines. Additionally, the same feature can be used to retrieve index mapping metadata for indices the user are not authorized to access directly.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-863 — Incorrect Authorization

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nelastic
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NNVD · security@elastic.co (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Elastic · Elasticsearchaffected 9.4.0 ≤ 9.4.3 ; affected 9.0.0 ≤ 9.3.7 ; affected 8.12.0 ≤ 8.19.18

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