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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-03-06 10:53

Modified

2025-07-09 06:18

Summary

Details

A memory disclosure vulnerability was identified in Elasticsearch 7.10.0 to 7.13.3 error reporting. A user with the ability to submit arbitrary queries to Elasticsearch could submit a malformed query that would result in an error message returned containing previously used portions of a data buffer. This buffer could contain sensitive information such as Elasticsearch documents or authentication details.

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CVE-2021-22145 (GCVE-0-2021-22145)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-07-21 11:20 – Updated: 2025-07-08 10:53

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Assigner

elastic

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html	x_refsource_MISC
	https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2021082…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-13-4…	x_refsource_MISC
	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163648/Elast…	x_refsource_MISC
	https://gist.github.com/lucasdrufva/f9c5d7c9e26ee…	technical-description

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Elastic	Elasticsearch	Affected: 7.10.0 , ≤ 7.13.3 (semver)

Credits

Lucas Drufva

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Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

CVE-2021-22145 (GCVE-0-2021-22145)

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