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CVE-2021-22145

A memory disclosure vulnerability was identified in Elasticsearch 7.10.0 to 7.13.3 error reporting. A user with the ability to submit arbitrary queries to Elasticsearch could submit a malformed query that would result in an error message returned containing previously used portions of a data buffer. This buffer could contain sensitive information such as Elasticsearch documents or authentication details.

Published

2021-07-21T15:15:14.063

Last Modified

2025-07-08T11:15:23.120

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

8.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Secondary
CWE-200
Type: Primary
CWE-209

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	elastic	elasticsearch	≤ 7.13.3	Yes
Application	oracle	communications_cloud_native_core_automated_test_suite	1.8.0	Yes

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163648/ElasticSearch-7.13.3-Memory-Disclosure.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-13-4-security-update/279177 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://gist.github.com/lucasdrufva/f9c5d7c9e26ee087b736d727953afd34 ([email protected])
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210827-0006/ Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163648/ElasticSearch-7.13.3-Memory-Disclosure.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-13-4-security-update/279177 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210827-0006/ Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)