CVE-2021-22149
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-09-15 11:44
Modified
2024-08-03 18:37
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
0.10% (0.44044)
Summary
Elastic Enterprise Search App Search versions before 7.14.0 are vulnerable to an issue where API keys were missing authorization via an alternate route. Using this vulnerability, an authenticated attacker could utilize API keys belonging to higher privileged users.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Elastic Elastic Enterprise Search Version: before 7.14.0
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