FKIE_CVE-2023-46666

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-10-26 17:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:31
Severity
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
An issue was discovered when using Document Level Security and the SPO "Limited Access" functionality in Elastic Sharepoint Online Python Connector. If a user is assigned limited access permissions to an item on a Sharepoint site then that user would have read permissions to all content on the Sharepoint site through Elasticsearch.
References
security@elastic.cohttps://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-sharepoint-online-python-connector-v8-10-3-0-security-update/344732Vendor Advisory
security@elastic.cohttps://www.elastic.co/community/securityVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-sharepoint-online-python-connector-v8-10-3-0-security-update/344732Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.elastic.co/community/securityVendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
elastic elastic_sharepoint_online_python_connector *
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