elastic/elasticsearch · Security
Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information in Elasticsearch
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-q394-h7f5-7f44
- CVE ID
- CVE-2021-22145
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 6.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 6.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Description
A memory disclosure vulnerability was identified in Elasticsearch 7.10.0 to 7.13.3 error reporting. A user with the ability to submit arbitrary queries to Elasticsearch could submit a malformed query that would result in an error message returned containing previously used portions of a data buffer. This buffer could contain sensitive information such as Elasticsearch documents or authentication details.
CWEs
- CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
- CWE-209 · Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-22145 ↗
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-13-4-security-update/279177 ↗
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html ↗
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163648/ElasticSearch-7.13.3-Memory-Disclosure.html ↗
- https://gist.github.com/lucasdrufva/f9c5d7c9e26ee087b736d727953afd34 ↗
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210827-0006 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q394-h7f5-7f44 ↗