Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Elasticsearch can lead to Privilege Escalation via a delegated administrative privilege whose scope is not fully…
Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Elasticsearch can lead to Privilege Escalation via a delegated administrative privilege whose scope is not fully enforced during authorization checks. Elasticsearch contains an incorrect authorization weakness in a configurable, non-default privilege that lets an administrator delegate limited role-management capability to another user, scoped to specific indices. The authorization check that enforces this scoping does not correctly account for a role-definition setting that can expand the matched index set. A user holding this delegated privilege with a br
Read at NIST National Vulnerability Database (CVE API 2.0)
- Vendor
- Elastic
- Product
- Elasticsearch / Kibana
- CVSS
- 7.2
- Exposure class
- Database
Why it ranks 15 (Routine)
- CVSS 7.2 high
- Product class: database
- Recency: items published within 24 hours gain 15, within 72 hours 6, within 7 days 2.