CVE-2021-37937

Elasticsearch privilege escalation

CVSS 5.9 MEDIUMEPSS 0.7%CWE-269

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 5.9EPSS 0.7%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

22 Nov 2023Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

An issue was found with how API keys are created with the Fleet-Server service account. When an API key is created with a service account, it is possible that the API key could be created with higher privileges than intended. Using this vulnerability, a compromised Fleet-Server service account could escalate themselves to a super-user.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected products

Elastic · Elasticsearch

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References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-14-1-security-update/283077 https://www.elastic.co/community/security