Elastic Elasticsearch Information Disclosure Vulnerability (ESA-2021-03)
🗓️ 15 Feb 2021 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 33 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Private is vulnerable to Elastic vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-7021 ) | 3 Sep 202113:24 | – | ibm | |
| Security Bulletin: Vulnerability affects IBM Observability with Instana | 11 Jan 202220:10 | – | ibm | |
| Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities may affect IBM Business Automation Workflow and IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) offline documentation | 28 Sep 202107:03 | – | ibm | |
| Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities have been identified in Elasticsearch shipped with IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact | 6 Jul 202205:31 | – | ibm | |
| CVE-2020-7021 | 10 Feb 202119:15 | – | attackerkb | |
| CVE-2020-7021 affecting package rubygem-elasticsearch 7.6.0-1 | 26 May 202219:04 | – | cbl_mariner | |
| CVE-2020-7021 | 28 Jan 202401:48 | – | circl | |
| Elasticsearch 日志信息泄露漏洞 | 10 Feb 202100:00 | – | cnnvd | |
| Elasticsearch Log Information Disclosure Vulnerability | 9 Mar 202100:00 | – | cnvd | |
| CVE-2020-7021 | 10 Feb 202118:55 | – | cve |
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:elastic:elasticsearch";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.145383");
script_version("2025-09-03T08:26:15+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-03 08:26:15 +0000 (Wed, 03 Sep 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2021-02-15 05:53:31 +0000 (Mon, 15 Feb 2021)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2021-03-26 12:49:00 +0000 (Fri, 26 Mar 2021)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2020-7021");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Elastic Elasticsearch Information Disclosure Vulnerability (ESA-2021-03)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_dependencies("gb_elastic_elasticsearch_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("elastic/elasticsearch/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Elasticsearch is prone to an information disclosure vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Elasticsearch has an information disclosure issue when audit logging and
the emit_request_body option is enabled. The Elasticsearch audit log could contain sensitive information
such as password hashes or authentication tokens.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"This could allow an Elasticsearch administrator to view sensitive details.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Elasticsearch versions prior to 6.8.14 and 7.0.0 prior to 7.10.0.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 6.8.14, 7.10.0 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-11-0-and-6-8-14-security-update/263915");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.elastic.co/community/security");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE)))
exit(0);
if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "6.8.14")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "6.8.14", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
if (version =~ "^7\." && version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "7.10.0")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "7.10.0", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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CVSS 24
CVSS 3.14.9
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