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UBUNTU-CVE-2024-23445 (CVE-2024-23445)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2024-06-12 14:15 – Updated: 2025-10-24 05:06 – Source website

Details

It was identified that if a cross-cluster API key https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.14/security-api-create-cross-cluster-api-key.html#security-api-create-cross-cluster-api-key-request-body restricts search for a given index using the query or the field_security parameter, and the same cross-cluster API key also grants replication for the same index, the search restrictions are not enforced during cross cluster search operations and search results may include documents and terms that should not be returned. This issue only affects the API key based security model for remote clusters https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.14/remote-clusters.html#remote-clusters-security-models that was previously a beta feature and is released as GA with 8.14.0

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-23445	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-23445	REPORT
	https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-14-0…	REPORT

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CVE-2024-23445 (GCVE-0-2024-23445)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-12 13:58 – Updated: 2024-10-31 14:18

Title

Elasticsearch Remote Cluster Search Cross Cluster API Key insufficient restrictions

Summary

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-06-12 19:25 UTC

CWE

CWE-922 - Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information

Assigner

elastic CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 69/100 over 173 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-14-0…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Elastic	Elasticsearch	Affected: 8.10.0 , < 8.14.0 (semver)

Date Public

2024-06-06 13:54

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