Enterprise Search 7.16.0 Security Update

Enterprise Search Information Disclosure issue ESA-2021-28 An information disclosure via GET request server-side request forgery vulnerability was discovered with the Workplace Search Github Enterprise Server integration. Using this vulnerability, a malicious Workplace Search admin could use the...

Elasticsearch 7.13.4 Security Update

Elasticsearch memory disclosure issue ESA-2021-16 A memory disclosure vulnerability was identified in Elasticsearch’s 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...

Elastic APM Agent for Go 1.11.0 Security Update

Elastic APM Agent for Go information disclosure ESA-2021-02 The Elastic APM agent for Go can leak sensitive HTTP header information when logging the details during an application panic. Normally, the APM agent will sanitize sensitive HTTP header details before sending the information to the APM...

Enterprise Search 7.9.0 security update

Enterprise Search credential exposure flaw ESA-2020-11 Elastic Enterprise Search versions before 7.9.0 contain a credential exposure flaw in the App Search interface. If a user is given the ‘developer’ role, they will be able to view the administrator API credentials. These credentials could allo...

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 APM agent for Python 5.1.0 security update

Elastic APM agent for Python client CGI proxy redirection flaw ESA-2019-11 When the Elastic APM agent for Python is run as a CGI script, there is a variable name clash flaw if a remote attacker can control the proxy header. This could result in an attacker redirecting collected APM data to a prox...

Elastic Stack 6.4.1 and 5.6.12 security update

Kibana XSS issue ESA-2018-14 Kibana versions 5.3.0 to 6.4.1 had a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability via the source field formatter that could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information from or perform destructive actions on behalf of other Kibana users. Affected Versions Versions afte...

Elastic Stack 6.1.3 and 5.6.7 security update

Kibana incomplete fix for ESA-2017-23 ESA-2018-03 The fix in Kibana for ESA-2017-23 was incomplete. With X-Pack security enabled, Kibana versions before 6.1.3 and 5.6.7 have an open redirect vulnerability on the login page that would enable an attacker to craft a link that redirects to an arbitra...

Kibana 6.0.1 and 5.6.5 security update

Kibana cross site scripting issue ESA-2017-22 Kibana versions prior to 6.0.1 and 5.6.5 had a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability via URL fields that could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information from or perform destructive actions on behalf of other Kibana users. Affected Versions: A...

Elasticsearch remote code execution CVE-2015-5377

Summary Elasticsearch versions prior to 1.6.1 are vulnerable to an engineered attack on its transport protocol that enables remote code execution. This issue is related to the Groovy announcement in CVE-2015-3253. Deployments are vulnerable even when Groovy dynamic scripting is disabled. We have...

Kibana 9.4.5, 9.5.1 Security Update (ESA-2026-128)

Improper Privilege Management in Kibana Fleet Leading to Over-Scoped Elastic Agent API Keys Description: Improper Privilege Management CWE-269 in Kibana Fleet can lead to privilege escalation via Privilege Escalation CAPEC-233. An integration policy may optionally declare extra data streams that...

Kibana 9.4.5 Security Update (ESA-2026-89)

Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Disclosure of Elastic Defend Endpoint Event Data The Elastic Security capability that suggests existing field values while a user authors endpoint policy artifacts queries Elastic Defend event data with Kibana's internal Elasticsearch account instead o...

Kibana 9.4.5 Security Update (ESA-2026-82)

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in Kibana Agent Builder Leading to Unauthorized Data Modification Kibana Agent Builder A2A JSON-RPC API endpoint derives the identifier of a stored conversation from a user-supplied input, and the ownership check on that identifier does not...

Elasticsearch 7.17.24, 8.15.0 Security Update (ESA-2026-52)

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service Uncontrolled Resource Consumption CWE-400 in Elasticsearch can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation CAPEC-130. An authenticated user can submit a specially crafted bulk request that causes sustained hi...

Metricbeat 8.19.13, 9.2.5 Security Update (ESA-2026-09)

Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in Metricbeat Leading to Denial of Service Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value CWE-789 in the Prometheus remotewrite HTTP handler in Metricbeat can lead Denial of Service via Excessive Allocation CAPEC-130. Affected Versions: 8.x: All versions...

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...

APM Server 8.14.0 Security Update (ESA-2024-19)

APM Server Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File ESA-2024-19 APM server logs contain document body from a partially failed bulk index request. For example, in case of unavailableshardsexception for a specific document, since the ES response line contains the document body, and that APM...

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 8.11.2, 7.17.16 Security Update (ESA-2023-27)

Kibana Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File ESA-2023-27 An issue was discovered by Elastic whereby sensitive information may be recorded in Kibana logs in the event of an error or in the event where debug level logging is enabled in Kibana. Elastic has released Kibana 8.11.2 which...

Enterprise Search 8.11.2 / 7.17.16 Security Update (ESA-2023-31)

Enterprise Search Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File ESA-2023-31 An issue was discovered by Elastic whereby the Documents API of App Search logged the raw contents of indexed documents at INFO log level. Depending on the contents of such documents, this could lead to the insertion o...

Endpoint Security 8.4.0/7.17.7 and Endgame 3.62.3 Security Update

Elastic Endpoint Security Local Privilege Escalation issue ESA-2022-13 An issue was discovered in the quarantine feature of Elastic Endpoint Security and Elastic Endgame for Windows, which could allow unprivileged users to elevate their privileges to those of the LocalSystem account. Affected...

Elastic Cloud Enterprise 3.4.0 Security Update

Elastic Cloud Enterprise Sensitive information disclosure issue ESA-2022-10 A flaw was discovered in ECE before 3.4.0 that might lead to the disclosure of sensitive information such as user passwords and Elasticsearch keystore settings values in logs such as the audit log or deployment logs in th...

Elastic Stack 7.17.4 and 8.2.1 Security Update

Elastic Stack update for CVE-2022-21449 Java vulnerability in Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm ECDSA ESA-2022-06 A vulnerability CVE-2022-21449 affecting the implementation of Elliptic Curve Digital Signing Algorithm ECDSA based signatures verification in Java JDK versions 15 and later...

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...

Elastic Stack 7.12.0 and 6.8.15 Security Update

Elasticsearch Suggester & Profile API information disclosure flaw ESA-2021-06 A document disclosure flaw was found in the Elasticsearch suggester and profile API when Document and Field Level Security are enabled. The suggester and profile API are normally disabled for an index when document leve...

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 7.9.0 and 6.8.12 Security Update

Elasticsearch field disclosure flaw ESA-2020-12 A field disclosure flaw was found in Elasticsearch when running a scrolling search with Field Level Security. If a user runs the same query another more privileged user recently ran, the scrolling search can leak fields that should be hidden. This...

Elastic Stack 7.7.1 and 6.8.10 Security Update

Kibana cross site scripting XSS issue ESA-2020-08 The TSVB visualization in Kibana contains a stored XSS flaw. An attacker who is able to edit or create a TSVB visualization could allow the attacker to obtain sensitive information from, or perform destructive actions, on behalf of Kibana users wh...

Elastic Stack 6.8.9 and 7.7.0 security update

Kibana upgrade assistant prototype pollution flaw ESA-2020-05 Kibana versions between 6.7.0 to 6.8.8 and 7.0.0 to 7.6.2 contain a prototype pollution flaw in the Upgrade Assistant. An authenticated attacker with privileges to write to the Kibana index could insert data that would cause Kibana to...

Elastic Stack 5.4.3 Security update

Kibana X-Pack Security user credentials disclosure ESA-2017-11 In Kibana X-Pack security versions prior to 5.4.3 if a Kibana user opens a crafted Kibana URL the result could be a redirect to an improperly initialized Kibana login screen. If the user enters credentials on this screen, the...

Elastic Stack 5.4.1 and 5.3.3 Security updates

X-Pack 5.4.1 privilege escalation ESA-2017-06 X-Pack 5.4.1 has been released which fixes a privilege escalation bug in the runas functionality. This bug prevents transitioning into the specified user specified in a runas request. If a role has been created using a template that contains the user...

Logstash SSL/TLS FREAK Vulnerability CVE-2015-5378

Logstash 1.5.2 and prior versions are vulnerable to a SSL/TLS security issue called the FREAK attack. If you are using the Lumberjack input, FREAK allows an attacker to successfully implement a man in the middle attack, intercepting communication between the Logstash Forwarder agent and Logstash...

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Kibana 9.4.7, 9.5.0 Security Update (ESA-2026-85)

Unintended Proxy or Intermediary 'Confused Deputy' in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation Unintended Proxy or Intermediary 'Confused Deputy' CWE-441 in Kibana Agent Builder can lead to privilege escalation. A non-administrative user able to edit a shared agent could cause privileged operations...

Kibana 8.19.21, 9.4.6, 9.5.3 Security Update (ESA-2026-140)

Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation Incorrect Authorization CWE-863 in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation via Input Data Manipulation CAPEC-153. Elasticsearch cluster privilege declarations originating from integration packages were not validated before being us...

Kibana 9.3.8, 9.4.4 Security Update (ESA-2026-91)

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service Description: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE-770 in Kibana can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation CAPEC-130. A user-supplied list of document fields accepted by t...

Kibana 8.19.20, 9.4.5, 9.5.1 Security Update (ESA-2026-127)

Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Fleet Leading to Privilege Escalation Description: Incorrect Authorization CWE-863 in Kibana Fleet can lead to privilege escalation via Privilege Abuse CAPEC-122. Fleet restricts some callers to managing integration policies for one specific integration. When an...

Kibana 8.19.20 and 9.4.5 Security Update (ESA-2026-88)

Missing Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Modification of Machine Learning Trained Model Space Assignments A Kibana Machine Learning capability that removes a saved object from the current space accepts machine learning trained models as a target, but it verifies only the privileges...

Kibana 8.19.20 and 9.4.5 Security Update (ESA-2026-87)

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Kibana Leading to Disclosure of Fleet Proxy Credentials A lower privileged user who holds only the privilege to read agent policies can read the entire configuration of a configured Fleet proxy. This would normally require the Fleet...

Kibana 8.19.20 and 9.4.5 Security Update (ESA-2026-105)

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in Kibana Leading to Information Disclosure Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key CWE-639 in Kibana can lead to information disclosure via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs CAPEC-1. An authenticated user who is...

Kibana 8.19.20, and 9.4.4 Security Update (ESA-2026-90)

Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Deletion of Synthetics Private Locations Description: Incorrect Authorization CWE-863 in Kibana can lead to unauthorized deletion of Synthetics private locations via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs CAPEC-1...

Kibana 8.19.20, 9.4.5 Security Update (ESA-2026-137)

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 denial of service via Excessive Allocation CAPEC-130. A query expression accepted by a connector reporting operation was...

Elasticsearch 8.19.20, 9.4.5 Security Update (ESA-2026-81)

Uncontrolled Recursion in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service Elasticsearch does not apply its configurable input length restriction to a user-supplied pattern accepted by an intervals query. Compiling a deeply nested pattern drives unbounded recursion that exhausts the thread stack and...

Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes 3.5.0 Security Update (ESA-2026-113)

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in an Environment Variable in Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes Leading to Information Disclosure Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in an Environment Variable CWE-526 in Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes ECK can lead to information disclosure via Retrieve...

Kibana 9.4.4 Security Update (ESA-2026-70)

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in Kibana Leading to Information Disclosure Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key CWE-639 in Kibana can lead to information disclosure via user-supplied identifiers that reference scheduled query result data from Kibana Spaces the...

Kibana 9.3.8, 9.4.4 Security Update (ESA-2026-65)

Missing Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Access to Cloud Connect Management Functions Missing Authorization CWE-862 in Kibana allows an authenticated user to access and modify Cloud Connect configuration and service settings without the required feature privileges, via direct...

Kibana 8.18.9, 8.19.6, 9.0.8, 9.1.6 Security Update (ESA-2026-50)

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File in Kibana Leading to Information Disclosure Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File CWE-532 in Kibana can lead to information disclosure. When the optional application performance monitoring APM instrumentation is enabled, sensitive reques...

Kibana 7.17.23 and 8.14.2 Security Update (ESA-2024-26)

Kibana allocation of resources without limits or throttling leads to crash ESA-2024-26 An allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Kibana can lead to a crash caused by a specially crafted request to /api/logentries/summary. This can be carried out by users with read access to the...

Elastic Cloud Enterprise 3.7.1 Security Update (ESA-2024-08)

Elastic Cloud Enterprise - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption through HTTP/2 endpoints - CVE-2023-45288 ESA-2024-08 On April 4, 2024, the Go Project announced CVE-2023-45288, which can lead to CPU exhaustion as an attacker can cause an HTTP/2 endpoint to read arbitrary amounts of header data. In t...

Elasticsearch 8.11.2, 7.17.16 Security Update (ESA-2023-29)

Elasticsearch Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File ESA-2023-29 An issue was discovered by Elastic whereby Watcher search input logged the search query results on DEBUG log level. This could lead to raw contents of documents stored in Elasticsearch to be printed in logs. Elastic has...