CVSS 3.1
6.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2021-22145
Medium (6.5). EPSS 76% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in org.elasticsearch.client:elasticsearch-rest-client 7.13.4.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 76% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-209, CWE-200
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- elastic:elasticsearch
- oracle:communications_cloud_native_core_automated_test_suite
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-q394-h7f5-7f44 | Maven | org.elasticsearch.client:elasticsearch-rest-client | >=7.10.0 <7.13.4 | 7.13.4 |
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163648/ElasticSearch-7.13.3-Memory-Disclosure.html
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-13-4-security-update/279177
- https://gist.github.com/lucasdrufva/f9c5d7c9e26ee087b736d727953afd34
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210827-0006/
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html