CVE-2024-23451CWE-863

Elasticsearch Incorrect Authorization in the Remote Cluster Security API key based security model

Medium · published March 27, 2024

CVSS v3.1
4.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
41.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00492 · 41.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-863 · Incorrect Authorization
Published
2024-03-27T18:03Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 MAR 18:03Z
    Elasticsearch Incorrect Authorization in the Remote Cluster Security API key based security model
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