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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.9 Medium

CVE-2021-37937

Elasticsearch privilege escalation

Description

An issue was found with how API keys are created with the Fleet-Server service account. When an API key is created with a service account, it is possible that the API key could be created with higher privileges than intended. Using this vulnerability, a compromised Fleet-Server service account could escalate themselves to a super-user.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Elastic Elasticsearch

Default version status: unaffected

  • 7.13.0 to < 7.14.0affected

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