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Elasticsearch Incorrect Authorization vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 27, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 27, 2024

Package

maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 8.10.0, < 8.13.0

Patched versions

8.13.0

Description

Incorrect Authorization issue exists in the API key based security model for Remote Cluster Security, which is currently in Beta, in Elasticsearch 8.10.0 and before 8.13.0. This allows a malicious user with a valid API key for a remote cluster configured to use the new Remote Cluster Security to read arbitrary documents from any index on the remote cluster, and only if they use the Elasticsearch custom transport protocol to issue requests with the target index ID, the shard ID and the document ID. None of Elasticsearch REST API endpoints are affected by this issue.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 27, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 27, 2024
Reviewed Mar 27, 2024
Last updated Mar 27, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

0.043%
(10th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-23451

GHSA ID

GHSA-r3hx-qfh5-r9m7

Source code

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