cve-2024-12539
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-12-17 20:50
Modified
2024-12-17 21:23
Severity ?
6.0 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS score ?
0.05% (0.11318)
Summary
An issue was discovered where improper authorization controls affected certain queries that could allow a malicious actor to circumvent Document Level Security in Elasticsearch and get access to documents that their roles would normally not allow.
References
bressers@elastic.cohttps://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-16-2-8-17-0-security-update/372091Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Elastic Elasticsearch Version: 8.16.0   ≤ 8.16.1
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