CVE-2019-7611

HIGH

Elasticsearch <5.6.15, 6.6.1 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A permission issue was found in Elasticsearch versions before 5.6.15 and 6.6.1 when Field Level Security and Document Level Security are disabled and the _aliases, _shrink, or _split endpoints are used . If the elasticsearch.yml file has xpack.security.dls_fls.enabled set to false, certain permission checks are skipped when users perform one of the actions mentioned above, to make existing data available under a new index/alias name. This could result in an attacker gaining additional permissions against a restricted index.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.elastic.co/community/security

Scores

CVSS v3 8.1
EPSS 0.0077
EPSS Percentile 73.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-284
Status published
Products (2)
elastic/elasticsearch < 5.6.15
org.elasticsearch/elasticsearch 0 - 5.6.15Maven
Published Mar 25, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026