CVE-2021-22145
MEDIUM6.5EPSS 67.9%Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information in Elasticsearch
Published: 5/24/2022Modified: 7/9/2025
Description
A memory disclosure vulnerability was identified in Elasticsearch 7.10.0 to 7.13.3 error reporting. A user with the ability to submit arbitrary queries to Elasticsearch could submit a malformed query that would result in an error message returned containing previously used portions of a data buffer. This buffer could contain sensitive information such as Elasticsearch documents or authentication details.
Affected packages (2)
- Bitnami/elasticsearch>= 7.10.0, < 7.13.4
- Maven/org.elasticsearch.client:elasticsearch-rest-client>= 7.10.0, < 7.13.4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
References (8)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-22145
- PATCHhttps://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch
- WEBhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163648/ElasticSearch-7.13.3-Memory-Disclosure.html
- WEBhttps://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-13-4-security-update/279177
- WEBhttps://gist.github.com/lucasdrufva/f9c5d7c9e26ee087b736d727953afd34
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210827-0006
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210827-0006/
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html