CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-22149

8.8 HIGH Published 2021-09-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-09-15
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-732, CWE-862

Description

Elastic Enterprise Search App Search versions before 7.14.0 are vulnerable to an issue where API keys were missing authorization via an alternate route. Using this vulnerability, an authenticated attacker could utilize API keys belonging to higher privileged users.

Affected configurations

• elastic enterprise search (< 7.14.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness
  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness

References