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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Elasticsearch

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 6.7.0, <= 6.8.3
>= 7.0.0, <= 7.3.2

Patched versions

6.8.4
7.4.0

Description

Elasticsearch versions 7.0.0-7.3.2 and 6.7.0-6.8.3 contain a username disclosure flaw was found in the API Key service. An unauthenticated attacker could send a specially crafted request and determine if a username exists in the Elasticsearch native realm.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 30, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Reviewed Jun 27, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

Moderate
5.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-7619

GHSA ID

GHSA-hxp8-r9g3-grfr

Source code

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