CVE-2021-37937

Elasticsearch privilege escalation

Summary

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

Affected packages

Bitnami elasticsearch

[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"7.13.0"},{"fixed":"7.14.1"}]}]

References

advisory discuss.elastic.co
advisory elastic.co
web nvd.nist.gov