Vulnerability CVE-2020-7019


Published: 2020-08-18

Description:
In Elasticsearch before 7.9.0 and 6.8.12 a field disclosure flaw was found when running a scrolling search with Field Level Security. If a user runs the same query another more privileged user recently ran, the scrolling search can leak fields that should be hidden. This could result in an attacker gaining additional permissions against a restricted index.

Type:

CWE-269

(Improper Privilege Management)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4/10
2.9/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Elastic -> Elasticsearch 

 References:
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-9-0-and-6-8-12-security-update/245456

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