Elastic Elasticsearch Java Vulnerability (ESA-2022-06)
🗓️ 07 Jun 2022 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2022 Greenbone AGType
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| Source | Link |
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| discuss | www.discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-17-1-security-update/298447 |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.148222");
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:"2022-06-07 06:45:38 +0000 (Tue, 07 Jun 2022)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2022-04-29 03:15:00 +0000 (Fri, 29 Apr 2022)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2022-21449");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable"); # Depending on the installed JDK
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Elastic Elasticsearch Java Vulnerability (ESA-2022-06)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2022 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Privilege escalation");
script_dependencies("gb_elastic_elasticsearch_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("elastic/elasticsearch/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Elastic Elasticsearch is prone to a vulnerability in Java.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"A vulnerability affecting the implementation of Elliptic Curve
Digital Signing Algorithm (ECDSA) based signatures verification in Java JDK versions 15 and later
was published on April 19, 2022. This vulnerability affects Oracle Java and OpenJDK, including
other JDKs derived from OpenJDK.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Elastic Elasticsearch version 6.8.x and 7.9.2 and later.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 7.17.4, 8.2.1 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-17-1-security-update/298447");
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 =~ "^6\.8\." ||
version_in_range_exclusive(version: version, test_version_lo: "7.9.2", test_version_up: "7.17.4")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "7.17.4", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "8.0.0", test_version2: "8.2.0")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "8.2.1", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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