A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch 7.17.0’s upgrade assistant, in which upgrading from version 6.x to 7.x would disable the in-built protections on the security index, allowing authenticated users with “*” index permissions access to this index.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| elastic / elasticsearch | 7.16.0 | 7.17.1 |
org.elasticsearch / elasticsearch
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7.16.0 | 7.17.1 |