A permission issue was found in Elasticsearch versions before 5.6.15 and 6.6.1 when Field Level Security and Document Level Security are disabled and the _aliases, _shrink, or _split endpoints are used . If the elasticsearch.yml file has xpack.security.dls_fls.enabled set to false, certain permission checks are skipped when users perform one of the actions mentioned above, to make existing data available under a new index/alias name. This could result in an attacker gaining additional permissions against a restricted index.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - A permission issue was found in Elasticsearch versions before 5.6.15 and 6.6.1 when Field Level Security
    and Document Level Security are disabled and the _aliases, _shrink, or _split endpoints are used . If the
    elasticsearch.yml file has xpack.security.dls_fls.enabled set to false, certain permission checks are
    skipped when users perform one of the actions mentioned above, to make existing data available under a new
    index/alias name. This could result in an attacker gaining additional permissions against a restricted
    index. (CVE-2019-7611)

An update of the elasticsearch package has been released.

A permission issue was found in Elasticsearch when Field Level Security and Document Level Security are disabled and the _aliases,
_shrink, or _split endpoints are used . If the elasticsearch.yml file has xpack.security.dls_fls.enabled set to false, certain permission checks are skipped when users perform one of the actions mentioned above, to make existing data available under a new index/alias name.
This could result in an attacker gaining additional permissions against a restricted index.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
414542	SCA: security update for org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (GHSA-fj32-6v7m-57pg)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
414542	SCA: security update for org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (GHSA-fj32-6v7m-57pg)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
203031	Photon OS 3.0: Elasticsearch PHSA-2019-3.0-0014	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
125081	Photon OS 2.0: Elasticsearch PHSA-2019-2.0-0155	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
122973	Elasticsearch ESA-2019-04	Nessus	CGI abuses	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2019-7611

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Tenable Plugins

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