CVE-2021-22145

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.

Published: Jul 21, 2021
Updated: May 9, 2024
CVE: CVE-2021-22145
GHSA: GHSA-q394-h7f5-7f44
Severity: Medium
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: Medium
Score: 6.5
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v2:

Severity: Low
Score: 4
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

CWEs:

CWE-209

OWASP TOP 10:

A6 - Security Misconfiguration

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
elastic / elasticsearch	7.10.0	7.13.3.x
oracle / communications_cloud_native_core_automated_test_suite	1.8.0	1.8.0.x
org.elasticsearch.client / elasticsearch-rest-client	7.10.0	7.13.4

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163648/ElasticSearch-7.13.3-Memory-Disclosure.html
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-13-4-security-update/279177
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210827-0006/
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

Vulnerability Database

289,599

CVE-2021-22145