PT-2020-19334 · Elastic · Elasticsearch

Published 2020-03-31 · Updated 2024-03-06 · CVE-2020-7009

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Elasticsearch versions 6.7.0 through 6.8.7 Elasticsearch versions 7.0.0 through 7.6.1

Description The issue is related to a privilege escalation flaw in Elasticsearch. If an attacker can create API keys, they can perform a series of steps to generate an API key with elevated privileges.

Recommendations For Elasticsearch versions 6.7.0 through 6.8.7, update to version 6.8.8 or later to resolve the issue. For Elasticsearch versions 7.0.0 through 7.6.1, update to version 7.6.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Improper Privilege Management

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-266

CWE-269

Related Identifiers

BIT-ELASTICSEARCH-2020-7009

CVE-2020-7009

GHSA-GFV5-GRX2-9JW2

Affected Products

Elasticsearch

References · 12

• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-6-8-8-and-7-6-2-security-update/225920 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-7009 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7009 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-7009 · Vendor Advisory
• https://elastic.co/community/security · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-7009 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-gfv5-grx2-9jw2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-7009 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-elasticsearch-2020-7009 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch · Note
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200403-0004 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/4158 · Telegram Post