PT-2021-14860 · Elastic · Elasticsearch

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Elasticsearch versions 7.7.0 through 7.10.1 Description: The issue is an information disclosure flaw in the async search API. When an async search is executed, HTTP headers are improperly stored. An Elasticsearch user with read access to the...

Elastic: Async search stores authorization headers in clear text

Summary: The .async-search index stores the results of async searches. It also stores a copy of the requests authorization headers, in clear text. These clear text authorization headers are then available to anyone with access to .async-search, probably mostly super users. Description: While you...