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CVE-2024-12539

6.0 mediumEPSS 0.5%

Medium (6.0) in elastic elasticsearch. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch 8.16.2.

An issue was discovered where improper authorization controls affected certain queries that could allow a malicious actor to circumvent Document Level Security in Elasticsearch and get access to documents that their roles would normally not allow.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

6.0 medium
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 39% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-863
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-5mpw-4546-2wcrMavenorg.elasticsearch:elasticsearch>=8.16.0 <8.16.28.16.2

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