CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-37937

8.8 HIGH Published 2023-11-22 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-11-22
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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
Weaknesses
CWE-269

Description

An issue was found with how API keys are created with the Fleet-Server service account. When an API key is created with a service account, it is possible that the API key could be created with higher privileges than intended. Using this vulnerability, a compromised Fleet-Server service account could escalate themselves to a super-user.

Affected configurations

• elastic elasticsearch (>= 7.13.0 <= 7.14.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References