Elasticsearch REST client vulnerability (CVE-2021-22134) 

Issue date: 06-07-2021
Affects versions: 14.5, 13.4, 12.6

Security Issue ID

SECURITY-217

 

Affected Product Version(s)

14.5.1, 12.6.15, 13.4.8 and previous releases.


Severity 

medium


Description

CVE-2021-22134 

A document disclosure flaw was found in Elasticsearch versions after 7.6.0 and before 7.11.0 when Document or Field Level Security is used. Get requests do not properly apply security permissions when executing a query against a recently updated document. This affects documents that have been updated and not yet refreshed in the index. This could result in the search disclosing the existence of documents and fields the attacker should not be able to view.

The Elasticsearch client dependency has been updated in 14.5.2, 13.4.9 and 12.6.16.

Instructions

Customers using the 12.x, 13.x and 14.x major versions are recommended to upgrade to the latest version in that series.