CVE-2020-7019 is a field disclosure vulnerability affecting Elasticsearch versions prior to 7.9.0 and 6.8.12. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 6.5) allows a less privileged user to access restricted fields during a scrolling search if a more privileged user recently executed a similar query, potentially leading to unauthorized data access. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 6.8.12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 7.0.0, < 7.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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Improper privilege management in elasticsearch
May 24, 2022elasticsearch: scrolling search can leak fields that should be hidden allowing access restriction bypass
Aug 18, 2020In Elasticsearch before 7.9.0 and 6.8.12 a field disclosure flaw was found when running a scrolling search with Field Level Security. If a user runs the same query another more privileged user recently ran the scrolling search can leak fields that should be hidden. This could result in an attacker gaining additional permissions against a restricted index.
Aug 11, 2020