CVE-2021-37937
HIGH8.8EPSS 0.27%Elasticsearch privilege escalation
Published: 3/6/2024Modified: 5/20/2025
Description
An issue was found with how API keys are created with the Fleet-Server service account. When an API key is created with a service account, it is possible that the API key could be created with higher privileges than intended. Using this vulnerability, a compromised Fleet-Server service account could escalate themselves to a super-user.
Affected packages (1)
- Bitnami/elasticsearch>= 7.13.0, < 7.14.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |