SCA: security update for org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (GHSA-hwvv-438r-mhvj)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 416004

Description

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

- A document disclosure flaw was found in Elasticsearch versions after 7.6.0 and before 7.11.0 when Document
or Field Level Security is used. Get requests do not properly apply security permissions when executing a
query against a recently updated document. This affects documents that have been updated and not yet
refreshed in the index. This could result in the search disclosing the existence of documents and fields
the attacker should not be able to view. (CVE-2021-22134)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hwvv-438r-mhvj

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 416004

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-22134

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/18/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/8/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-22134