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CVE-2019-13416

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-13416 describes an authorization bypass vulnerability in Search Guard versions prior to 24.3 when Cross Cluster Search (CCS) is enabled. Authenticated users could access the local cluster with full privileges, regardless of their defined roles on remote clusters. Rated 6.5 MEDIUM (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N), this flaw allows an attacker with low privileges to achieve high confidentiality impact over the network with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 24.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:search-guard:search_guard:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.99%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
58.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0099 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 21,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (5)

redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.10Fixed in: openshift-elasticsearch-plugin
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11Fixed in: openshift3/ose-logging-elasticsearch5
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.9Fixed in: openshift-elasticsearch-plugin
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.9Fixed in: search-guard-2
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/ose-logging-elasticsearch5

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-13416Low

search-guard: authenticated users ignoring their roles on the remote cluster

Aug 13, 2019

References

docs.search-guard.com / 6.x-25/changelog-searchguard-6-x-24_3
Release NotesVendor Advisory
search-guard.com / cve-advisory
Vendor Advisory