Logstash 8.17.6, 8.18.1, and 9.0.1 Security Update (ESA-2025-08)

Logstash Improper Certificate Validation in TCP output ESA-2025-08 Improper certificate validation in Logstash's TCP output could lead to a man-in-the-middle MitM attack in “client” mode, as hostname verification in TCP output was not being performed when the sslverificationmode = full was set...

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...

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...

Kibana 7.17.19 and 8.13.0 Security Update (ESA-2024-47)

Kibana Unrestricted Upload of File ESA-2024-47 Unrestricted file upload in Kibana allows an authenticated attacker to compromise software integrity by uploading a crafted malicious file due to insufficient server-side validation. Affected Versions: 7.17.0 to 7.17.18 and 8.0.0 to 8.12.3 Solutions...

APM Server 8.16.1 Security Update (ESA-2024-41)

APM Server Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File ESA-2024-41 APM server logs could contain parts of the document body from a partially failed bulk index request. Depending on the nature of the document, this could disclose sensitive information in APM Server error logs. 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:...

Elastic Agent 7.17.25 and 8.15.4 Security Update (ESA-2024-39)

Elastic Agent Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere ESA-2024-39 Inclusion of functionality from an untrusted control sphere in Elastic Agent subprocess, osqueryd, allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code via parameter injection. An attacker requires local access and the...

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...

Elastic Agent / Elastic Endpoint Security Security Update (ESA-2025-03)

Elastic Agent / Elastic Endpoint Security local API key disclosure ESA-2025-03 Exposure of sensitive information to local unauthorized actors in Elastic Agent and Elastic Security Endpoint can lead to loss of confidentiality and impersonation of Endpoint to the Elastic Stack. This issue was...

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...

Elastic Defend 8.17.3 Security Update (ESA-2025-05)

Elastic Defend Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log Files ESA-2025-05 Improper restriction of environment variables in Elastic Defend can lead to exposure of sensitive information such as API keys and tokens via automatic transmission of unfiltered environment variables to the stack. This...

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...

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 8.16.4 and 8.17.2 Security Update (ESA-2025-02)

Kibana Prototype Pollution can lead to code injection ESA-2025-02 Prototype Pollution in Kibana can lead to code injection via unrestricted file upload combined with path traversal. Affected Versions: Kibana versions 8.16.1 up to and including 8.16.3, and 8.17.0 up to and including 8.17.1 Solutio...

Kibana 8.17.3 / 8.16.6 Security Update (ESA-2025-06)

Kibana arbitrary code execution via prototype pollution ESA-2025-06 Prototype pollution in Kibana leads to arbitrary code execution via a crafted file upload and specifically crafted HTTP requests. In Kibana versions = 8.15.0 and = 8.15.0 and = 8.17.0 and 8.17.3 Solutions and Mitigations: Users...

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...

Fleet Server 8.15.0 Security Update ( ESA-2024-31)

Fleet Server sensitive information exposure via logs ESA-2024-31 An issue was identified in Fleet Server where Fleet policies that could contain sensitive information were logged on INFO and ERROR log levels. The nature of the sensitive information largely depends on the integrations enabled...

Kibana 8.15.0 Security Update (ESA-2024-29, ESA-2024-30)

Kibana server-side request forgery ESA-2024-29 A server side request forgery vulnerability was identified in Kibana where the /api/fleet/healthcheck API could be used to send requests to internal endpoints. Due to the nature of the underlying request, only endpoints available over https that retu...

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...

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...

Elastic Defend 8.13.3 Security Update (ESA-2024-24)

Elastic Defend Improper Handling of Alternate Encoding Leads to Crash ESA-2024-24 Improper handling of alternate encoding occurs when Elastic Defend on Windows systems attempts to scan a file or process encoded as a multibyte character. This leads to an uncaught exception causing Elastic Defend t...

Elasticsearch 8.16.2 / 8.17.0 Security Update

Elasticsearch Incorrect Authorization ESA-2024-46 An issue was discovered where improper authorization controls affected certain queries that could allow a malicious actor to circumvent Document Level Security in Elasticsearch and get access to documents that their roles would normally not allow...

Kibana 8.15.1 Security Update (ESA-2024-27, ESA-2024-28)

Kibana arbitrary code execution via YAML deserialization in Amazon Bedrock Connector ESA-2024-27 A deserialization issue in Kibana can lead to arbitrary code execution when Kibana attempts to parse a YAML document containing a crafted payload. This issue only affects users that use Elastic...

APM Server 8.14.0 Security Update (ESA-2024-09)

APM Server - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption through HTTP/2 endpoints - CVE-2023-45288 ESA-2024-09 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 an on-prem...

Elastic Agent 8.15.0 Security Update (ESA-2024-23)

Elastic Agent Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File ESA-2024-23 An issue was discovered whereby Elastic Agent will leak secrets from the agent policy elastic-agent.yml only when the log level is configured to debug. By default the log level is set to info, where no leak occurs. Affecte...

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,...

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...

Elasticsearch 8.13.0/7.17.23 Security Update (ESA-2024-12)

Elasticsearch elasticsearch-certutil csr fails to encrypt private key ESA-2024-12 It was discovered by Elastic engineering that when elasticsearch-certutil CLI tool is used with the csr option in order to create a new Certificate Signing Requests, the associated private key that is generated is...

Kibana 7.17.23/8.14.0 Security Update (ESA-2024-16)

Kibana Denial of Service issue ESA-2024-16 An issue was discovered in Kibana where a user with Viewer role could cause a Kibana instance to crash by sending a large number of maliciously crafted requests to a specific endpoint. Affected Versions: Kibana 8.x versions prior to 8.14.0 and Kibana 7.x...

Elastic Cloud Enterprise 3.7.2 Security Update (ESA-2024-18)

ECE Improper Authorization ESA-2024-18 It was identified that under certain specific preconditions, an API key that was originally created with a specific privileges could be subsequently used to create new API keys that have elevated privileges. Affected Versions: ECE versions after 3.0.0 and...

Kibana 7.17.22 / 8.14.0 Security Update (ESA-2024-17)

Kibana RCE due to chromium type confusion ESA-2024-17 On March 26, 2024, a type confusion vulnerability was found in WebAssembly in Google Chrome version prior to 123.0.6312.86 which allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page. Kibana includes a bundled version of...

Kibana 8.14.0/7.17.22 Security Update (ESA-2024-10)

Kibana open redirect issue ESA-2024-10. An open redirect issue was discovered in Kibana that could lead to a user being redirected to an arbitrary website if they use a maliciously crafted Kibana URL. Affected Versions: Kibana Versions before 7.17.22 and before 8.14.0. Solutions and Mitigations:...

Kibana 8.14.0/7.17.22 Security Update (ESA-2024-11)

Kibana uncontrolled resource consumption ESA-2024-11 A high-privileged user, allowed to create custom osquery packs could affect the availability of Kibana by uploading a maliciously crafted osquery pack. Affected Versions: Kibana versions after 7.13.0 and before 7.17.22 and versions after 8.0.0...

Elasticsearch 8.14.0 Security Update (ESA-2024-14)

Elasticsearch StackOverflow vulnerability ESA-2024-14 A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, affecting document ingestion when an index template contains a dynamic field mapping of “passthrough” type. Under certain circumstances, ingesting documents in this index would cause a StackOverflow...

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...

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...

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...

Elasticsearch 8.11.1 Security Update (ESA-2024-05)

Elasticsearch Uncaught Exception ESA-2024-05 An uncaught exception in Elasticsearch = 8.4.0 and = 8.4.0 and 8.11.1 Solutions and Mitigations: The issue is resolved in version 8.11.1. This requires the attachment processor to be enabled. Users unable to upgrade can ensure that the attachment...

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...

Elasticsearch 8.13.0 / 7.17.19 Security Update (ESA-2024-06)

Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability ESA-2024-06 A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, where processing a document in a deeply nested pipeline on an ingest node could cause the Elasticsearch node to crash. Affected Versions: Elasticsearch versions on or after 7.0.0 and...

Kibana 8.12.1, 7.17.18 Security Update (ESA-2024-04)

Kibana heap buffer overflow vulnerability ESA-2024-04 This issue requires authenticated access to Kibana. On Dec 21, 2023, Google Chrome announced CVE-2023-7024, described as “Heap buffer overflow in WebRTC in Google Chrome prior to 120.0.6099.129 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit...

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...

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...

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...

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...