CVE-2021-37937

Elasticsearch privilege escalation

State: Published
Severity: 5.9 Medium
Published: Nov 22, 2023
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Aug 3, 2021

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.9 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N	elastic

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
ElasticsearchElastic	7.13.0 to before 7.14.0Affected

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-14-1-security-update/283077
https://www.elastic.co/community/security

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