CVE-2022-31022

Missing Role Based Access Control for the REST handlers in bleve/http package

State
Published
Severity
6.2 Medium
Published
Jun 1, 2022
Updated
May 8, 2025
Reserved
May 18, 2022

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Description

Bleve is a text indexing library for go. Bleve includes HTTP utilities under bleve/http package, that are used by its sample application. These HTTP methods pave way for exploitation of a node’s filesystem where the bleve index resides, if the user has used bleve’s own HTTP (bleve/http) handlers for exposing the access to the indexes. For instance, the CreateIndexHandler (`http/index_create.go`) and DeleteIndexHandler (`http/index_delete.go`) enable an attacker to create a bleve index (directory structure) anywhere where the user running the server has the write permissions and to delete recursively any directory owned by the same user account. Users who have used the bleve/http package for exposing access to bleve index without the explicit handling for the Role Based Access Controls(RBAC) of the index assets would be impacted by this issue. Version 2.5.0 relocated the `http/` dir used _only_ by bleve-explorer to `blevesearch/bleve-explorer`, thereby addressing the issue. However, the http package is purely intended to be used for demonstration purposes. Bleve was never designed handle the RBACs, nor it was ever advertised to be used in that way. The collaborators of this project have decided to stay away from adding any authentication or authorization to bleve project at the moment. The bleve/http package is mainly for demonstration purposes and it lacks exhaustive validation of the user inputs as well as any authentication and authorization measures. It is recommended to not use bleve/http in production use cases.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.2 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-288 Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
  • CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Function

Affected Products

ProductVersions
bleveblevesearch
  • >= 0.1.0, < 2.5.0Affected

References

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