Description
Elasticsearch generally filters out sensitive information and credentials before logging to the audit log. It was found that this filtering was not applied when requests to Elasticsearch use certain deprecated URIs for APIs. The impact of this flaw is that sensitive information such as passwords and tokens might be printed in cleartext in Elasticsearch audit logs. Note that audit logging is disabled by default and needs to be explicitly enabled and even when audit logging is enabled, request bodies that could contain sensitive information are not printed to the audit log unless explicitly configured.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231130-0006/
Vendor Advisory
https://www.elastic.co/community/security
Scores
CVSS v3
4.1
EPSS
0.0005
EPSS Percentile
16.2%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-532
Status
published
Products (2)
elastic/elasticsearch
7.0.0 - 7.17.12
org.elasticsearch/elasticsearch
7.0.0 - 7.17.13Maven
Published
Oct 26, 2023
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026