Elasticsearch 8.19.19, 9.3.8, 9.4.4 Security Update (ESA-2026-74)

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service Uncontrolled Resource Consumption CWE-400 in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Exponential Data Expansion CAPEC-197. An authenticated user may submit a specially crafted query to the ES|QL engine that...

Fleet Server 8.19.15, 9.3.4, 9.4.0 Security Update (ESA-2026-41)

Dependency on Vulnerable Third-Party Component in Fleet Server Leading to Denial of Service Dependency on Vulnerable Third-Party Component CWE-1395 exists in the Go standard library used by Fleet Server that could allow a remote attacker to cause denial of service by sending a specially crafted...

Packetbeat 8.19.10, 9.1.10, 9.2.4 Security Update (ESA-2026-02)

Improper Validation of Array Index in Packetbeat Leading to Overflow Buffers ESA-2026-02 Improper Validation of Array Index CWE-129 in Packetbeat’s MongoDB protocol parser can allow an attacker to cause Overflow Buffers CAPEC-100 through specially crafted network traffic. This requires an attacke...

Kibana 9.0.6, 9.1.3 Security Update (ESA-2025-13)

Kibana privilege escalation viareportinguser role ESA-2025-13 Incorrect authorization in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation via the built-in reportinguser role which incorrectly has the ability to access all Kibana Spaces. Affected Versions: Kibana versions starting from and including 9.0.0,...

Kibana 7.17.24 and 8.12.0 Security Update (ESA-2024-20)

Kibana Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type Can Lead to XSS ESA-2024-20 Unrestricted upload of a file with dangerous type in Kibana can lead to arbitrary JavaScript execution in a victim’s browser XSS via crafted HTML and JavaScript files. The attacker must have access to the Synthetic...

Elasticsearch 7.17.24 and 8.15.1 Security Update (ESA-2024-37)

Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability ESA-2024-37 An issue was discovered in Elasticsearch, where a large recursion using the Well-KnownText formatted string with nested GeometryCollection objects could cause a stackoverflow. Affected Versions: Elasticsearch versions 7.17....

Kibana 7.17.23 and 8.15.1 Security Update (ESA-2024-36)

Kibana Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability ESA-2024-36 An issue has been identified where a specially crafted request sent to an Observability API could cause the kibana server to crash. A successful attack requires a malicious user to have read permissions for Observability assigned ...

Logstash 8.15.3, 8.16.0 Security Update (ESA-2024-48)

Logstash Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity ESA-2024-48 On October 28th, 2024, Ruby announced CVE-2024-49761 in rexml which can lead to ReDoS when parsing XML that has many digits between & and x...; in a hex numeric character reference &x...;. The issue only affects users that use the...

Logstash 8.15.1 Security Update (ESA-2024-35)

Logstash Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability ESA-2024-35 On August 19, 2024, Floraison announced CVE-2024-43380, which affects fugit "natural" parser. The parser turns natural language into a cron date and was found to accept any length of input, causing an uncontrolled resource...

Kibana 8.14.2 / 7.17.23 Security Update (ESA-2024-22)

Kibana arbitrary code execution via prototype pollution ESA-2024-22 A flaw allowing arbitrary code execution was discovered in Kibana. An attacker with access to ML and Alerting connector features, as well as write access to internal ML indices can trigger a prototype pollution vulnerability,...

Elasticsearch 8.14.0 Security Update (ESA-2024-13)

Elasticsearch Remote Cluster Search Cross Cluster API Key insufficient restrictions ESA-2024-13 It was identified that if a cross-cluster API key restricts search for a given index using the query or the fieldsecurity parameter, and the same cross-cluster API key also grants replication for the...

Elasticsearch 8.13.0 Security Update (ESA-2024-07)

Elasticsearch Improper Authorization in the Remote Cluster Security API key based security model ESA-2024-07 It was identified by the Elastic engineering team that the API key based security model for Remote Cluster Security, which is currently in Beta, is affected by an improper authorization...

APM Server 8.12.1 Security Update (ESA-2024-03)

APM Server Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File ESA-2024-03 An issue was discovered whereby APM Server could log at ERROR level, a response from Elasticsearch indicating that indexing the document failed and that response would contain parts of the original document. Depending on the...

Elastic Network Drive Connector 8.12.1 Security Update (ESA-2024-02)

Elastic Network Drive Connector Improper Access Control ESA-2024-02 An issue was discovered in the Windows Network Drive Connector when using Document Level Security to assign permissions to a file, with explicit allow write and deny read. Although the document is not accessible to the user in...

Logstash 8.11.1 Security Update (ESA-2023-26)

Logstash Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File ESA-2023-26 An issue was identified by Elastic whereby sensitive information is recorded in Logstash logs under specific circumstances. The prerequisites for the manifestation of this issue are: Logstash is configured to log in JSON format...

Elastic 7.17.9, 8.5.0 and 8.6.1 Security Update

Kibana authenticated Denial of Service issue ESA-2023-02 A flawCVE-2022-38900 was discovered in one of Kibana’s third party dependencies, that could allow an authenticated user to to perform a request that crashes the Kibana server process. Affected Versions: Kibana Versions 7.0.0 through 7.17.8...

Endpoint Security 8.4.1 Security Update

Elastic Endpoint Security Local Privilege Escalation issue ESA-2022-14 An issue was discovered in the rollback feature of Elastic Endpoint Security for Windows, which could allow unprivileged users to elevate their privileges to those of the LocalSystem account. Affected Versions: Version 8.4.0...

Elastic Stack 7.17.1 Security Update

Elasticsearch privilege escalation issue ESA-2022-02 A flaw was discovered in elasticsearch 7.17.0’s upgrade assistant, in which upgrading from version 6.x to 7.x would disable the in-built protections on the security index, allowing authenticated users with “” index permissions access to this...

Kibana 7.17.0 Security Update

Kibana Cross-site scripting issue ESA-2022-01 An XSS vulnerability was found in Kibana index patterns. Using this vulnerability, an authenticated user with permissions to create index patterns can inject malicious javascript into the index pattern which could execute against other users. Affected...

Elasticsearch 5.0.0-5.6.10 and 6.0.0-6.3.2: Log4j CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046 remediation

Note — If you are not running Elasticsearch 5.0.0-5.6.10 or 6.0.0-6.3.2, these instructions do not apply. Please follow the guidance in themain announcement. Instructions for removing JndiLookup from the log4j-core JAR file​ These instructions only apply to users running Elasticsearch versions...

Apache Log4j2 Remote Code Execution (RCE) Vulnerability - CVE-2021-44228 - ESA-2021-31

Subject: Apache Log4j2 Vulnerability - CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046, CVE-2021-45105, CVE-2021-44832 - ESA-2021-31 ​​Note - We will update this announcement with new details as they emerge from our analysis. Please check back periodically. Update Log Dec 16, 2021 - 04:20 UTC - Update Summary: EC...

Kibana 7.15.2 Security Update

Kibana Path Traversal issue ESA-2021-26 It was discovered that on Windows operating systems specifically, Kibana was not validating a user supplied path, which would load .pbf files. Because of this, a malicious user could arbitrarily traverse the Kibana host to load internal files ending in the...

Elastic Stack 7.14.0 Security Update

Elasticsearch Document/Field Level Security issue ESA-2021-18 A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch where document and field level security was not applied to searchable snapshots. This could lead to an authenticated user gaining access to information that they are unauthorized to view. Affected...

Elastic Stack 7.13.0 and 6.8.16 Security Update

Kibana url redirection flaw ESA-2021-12 An open redirect flaw was found in Kibana versions before 7.13.0 and 6.8.16. If a logged in user visits a maliciously crafted URL, it could result in Kibana redirecting the user to an arbitrary website. Affected Versions: All versions of Kibana before 7.13....

Elastic Stack 7.11.0 and 6.8.14 Security Update

Elasticsearch information disclosure ESA-2021-03 Elasticsearch versions before 7.10.0 and 6.8.14 have an information disclosure issue when audit logging and the emitrequestbody option is enabled. The Elasticsearch audit log could contain sensitive information such as password hashes or...

Elastic Stack 6.8.7 and 7.6.1 security update

Kibana Node.js security flaws ESA-2020-01 The version of Node.js shipped in all versions of Kibana prior to 7.6.1 and 6.8.7 contain three security flaws. CVE-2019-15604 describes a Denial of Service DoS flaw in the TLS handling code of Node.js. Successful exploitation of this flaw could result in...

Elastic Stack 7.4.0 security update

Elastic Code local file disclosure flaw ESA-2019-12 A local file disclosure flaw was found in Elastic Code. If a malicious code repository is imported into Code it is possible to read arbitrary files from the local filesystem of the Kibana instance running Code with the permission of the Kibana...

Elastic Stack 6.8.2 and 7.2.1 security update

Elasticsearch race condition flaw ESA-2019-07 A race condition flaw was found in the response headers Elasticsearch returns to a request. On a system with multiple users submitting requests, it could be possible for an attacker to gain access to response header containing sensitive data from...

Elastic Stack 6.4.3 and 5.6.13 security update

Elasticsearch information disclosure ESA-2018-16 Elasticsearch Security versions 6.4.0 to 6.4.2 contain an error in the way request headers are applied to requests when using the Active Directory, LDAP, Native, or File realms. A request may receive headers intended for another request if the same...

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Kibana 8.19.15, 9.3.4 Security Update (ESA-2026-49)

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE-770 in Kibana can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation CAPEC-130. An authenticated user can submit a specially crafted bulk deletion...

Kibana 8.19.13, 9.2.7, 9.3.2 Security Update (ESA-2026-20)

Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input CWE-1284 in the Timelion visualization plugin in Kibana can lead Denial of Service via Excessive Allocation CAPEC-130. The vulnerability allows an...

Packetbeat 8.19.11, 9.2.5 Security Update (ESA-2026-11)

Improper Validation of Array Index in Packetbeat Leading to Denial of Service Improper Validation of Array Index CWE-129 in multiple protocol parser components in Packetbeat can lead Denial of Service via Input Data Manipulation CAPEC-153. An attacker with the ability to send specially crafted,...

Kibana 8.19.12, 9.2.6, 9.3.1 Security Update (ESA-2026-19)

Missing Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Endpoint Response Action Configuration Missing Authorization CWE-862 in Kibana’s server-side Detection Rule Management can lead to Unauthorized Endpoint Response Action Configuration host isolation, process termination, and process suspensio...

Kibana 8.19.9, 9.1.9, and 9.2.3 Security Update (ESA-2025-36)

Kibana Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling ESA-2025-36 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE-770 in Kibana can allow a low-privileged authenticated user to cause Excessive Allocation CAPEC-130 of computing resources and a denial of service DoS of the Kibana...

APM Server (Windows Installer) 8.16.3, 8.17.1 Security Update (ESA-2025-01)

APM Server Uncontrolled Search Path Element can lead to Local Privilege Escalation LPE when using the Windows Installer ESA-2025-01 An uncontrolled search path element vulnerability can lead to local privilege Escalation LPE via Insecure Directory Permissions. The vulnerability arises from improp...

Kibana 7.17.29, 8.17.8, 8.18.3, 9.0.3 Security Update (ESA-2025-10)

Kibana Open Redirect ESA-2025-10 URL redirection to an untrusted site 'Open Redirect' in Kibana can lead to sending a user to an arbitrary site and server-side request forgery via a specially crafted URL. Affected Versions: Kibana versions up to and including 7.17.28, 8.0.0 up to and including...

Kibana 8.12.1 Security Update (ESA-2024-21)

Kibana Improper Authorization ESA-2024-21 Improper authorization in Kibana can lead to privilege abuse via a direct HTTP request to a Synthetic monitor endpoint. Affected Versions: Kibana versions before and including 8.12.0. Solutions and Mitigations: The issue is resolved in versions 8.12.1. Fo...

Kibana 8.17.6, 8.18.1, or 9.0.1 Security Update (ESA-2025-07)

Kibana arbitrary code execution via prototype pollution ESA-2025-07 A Prototype pollution vulnerability in Kibana leads to arbitrary code execution via crafted HTTP requests to machine learning and reporting endpoints. Affected Versions: 8.3.0 to 8.17.5, and 8.18.0, and 9.0.0 Affected...

Elasticsearch 7.17.25 and 8.16.0 Security Update (ESA-2024-40)

Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerabilityESA-2024-40 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Elasticsearch while evaluating specifically crafted search templates with Mustache functions can lead to Denial of Service by causing the Elasticsearch node to crash. Affected Versions:...

Logstash 8.15.3 Security Update (ESA-2024-38)

Logstash affected by CVE-2024-47561 in Apache Avro ESA-2024-38 On October 3, 2024, CVE-2024-47561 was published, which can lead to execution of arbitrary code. The issue only affects users using the Kafka integration plugin and only if a malicious schema is loaded through the schema registry...

Elasticsearch 8.15.1 Security Update (ESA-2024-34)

Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability ESA-2024-34 A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, where a large recursion using the innerForbidCircularReferences function of the PatternBank class could cause the Elasticsearch node to crash. A successful attack requires a malicious...

Kibana 7.17.23/8.15.0 Security Updates (ESA-2024-32, ESA-2024-33)

Kibana allocation of resources without limits or throttling leads to crash ESA-2024-33 An allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Kibana can lead to a crash caused by a specially crafted request to /api/metrics/snapshot. This can be carried out by users with read access to the...

Elasticsearch 7.17.21 and 8.13.3 Security Update (ESA-2024-25)

Elasticsearch allocation of resources without limits or throttling leads to crash ESA-2024-25 An allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Elasticsearch can lead to an OutOfMemoryError exception resulting in a crash via a specially crafted query using an SQL function. Affected...

Kibana 8.14.0 Security Update (ESA-2024-15)

Kibana Broken Access Control issue ESA-2024-15 A flaw was discovered in Kibana, allowing view-only users of alerting to use the runsoon API making the alerting rule run continuously, potentially affecting the system availability if the alerting rule is running complex queries. Affected Versions:...

Elastic Security Statement for CVE-2024-3094, xz versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1

Elastic Products are not affected by this issue. On March 29th, 2024, Elastic became aware of the malicious code planted in the xz package. Elastic has performed an investigation to identify any Elastic Products which may be impacted by this issue and we have concluded that no Elastic products us...

Kibana 8.12.1 Security Update (ESA-2024-01)

Kibana Broken Access Control issue ESA-2024-01 An issue was discovered by Elastic, whereby the Detection Engine Search API does not respect Document-level security DLS or Field-level security FLS when querying the .alerts-security.alerts-spaceid indices. Users who are authorized to call this API...

Beats and Elastic Agent 8.11.3 / 7.17.16 Security Update (ESA-2023-30)

Beats and Elastic Agent Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File An issue was discovered by Elastic whereby Beats and Elastic Agent would log a raw event in its own logs at the WARN or ERROR level if ingesting that event to Elasticsearch failed with any 4xx HTTP status code except 409 or...

Endpoint v8.10.4 Security Update

Elastic Endpoint Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File ESA-2023-21 If Elastic Endpoint v7.9.0 - v8.10.3 is configured to use a non-default option in which the logging level is explicitly set to debug, and when Elastic Agent is simultaneously configured to collect and send those logs to...

Beats, Elastic Agent, APM Server, and Fleet Server 8.10.1 Security Update - Improper Certificate Validation issue (ESA-2023-16)

Beats, Elastic Agent, APM Server, and Fleet Server Improper Certificate Validation issue ESA-2023-16 It was discovered that when acting as TLS clients, Beats, Elastic Agent, APM Server, and Fleet Server did not verify whether the server certificate is valid for the target IP address; however,...