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...

Elasticsearch-hadoop 7.17.11 / 8.9.0 Security Update (ESA-2023-28)

Elasticsearch-hadoop Unsafe Deserialization ESA-2023-28 An issue was identified that allowed the unsafe deserialization of java objects from hadoop or spark configuration properties that could have been modified by authenticated users. Elastic would like to thank Yakov Shafranovich, with Amazon W...

Elasticsearch 7.17.14 / 8.10.3 Security Update (ESA-2023-24)

Elasticsearch Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions ESA-2023-24 It was identified that malformed scripts used in the script processor of an Ingest Pipeline could cause an Elasticsearch node to crash when calling the Simulate Pipeline API. Affected Versions: Elasticsearch versions on or afte...

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...

Kibana 8.11.1 Security Update (ESA-2023-25)

Kibana Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File ESA-2023-25 An issue was discovered by Elastic whereby sensitive information may be recorded in Kibana logs in the event of an error. Elastic has released Kibana 8.11.1 which resolves this issue. The error message recorded in the log may...

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...

Fleet Server v8.10.3 Security Update

Fleet Server Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File ESA-2023-20 An issue was discovered in Fleet Server = v8.10.0 and = v8.10.0 and v8.10.3 Solutions and Mitigations: If an affected version is being utilized then upgrade to Fleet Server v8.10.3 or above. If there are ephemeral container...

Kibana 8.10.3, 7.17.14 Security Update

Kibana heap buffer overflow vulnerability ESA-2023-19 On Sept 11, 2023, Google Chrome announced CVE-2023-4863, described as “Heap buffer overflow in libwebp in Google Chrome prior to 116.0.5845.187 and libwebp 1.3.2 allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory write via a crafted...

Elastic Sharepoint Online Python Connector v8.10.3.0 Security Update

Elastic Sharepoint Online Python Connector Improper Access Control ESA-2023-18 An issue was discovered when using Document Level Security and the SPO "Limited Access" functionality in Elastic Sharepoint Online Python Connector. If a user is assigned limited access permissions to an item on a...

Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) 2.8 Security Update

Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes ECK secret token configuration issue ESA-2023-11 Secret token configuration is never applied when using ECK =8.0. This could lead to anonymous requests to an APM Server being accepted and the data ingested into this APM deployment. Affected Versions: Elastic Cloud on...

Elasticsearch 8.9.0, 7.17.13 Security Update

Elasticsearch uncontrolled resource consumption ESA-2023-13 An issue has been identified with how Elasticsearch handled incoming requests on the HTTP layer. An unauthenticated user could force an Elasticsearch node to exit with an OutOfMemory error by sending a moderate number of malformed HTTP...

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,...

Elasticsearch 8.9.1 / 7.17.13 Security Update

Elasticsearch StackOverflow vulnerability ESA-2023-14 A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, affecting the search API that allowed a specially crafted query string to cause a Stack Overflow and ultimately a Denial of Service. Affected Versions: Elasticsearch versions from 7.0.0 to 7.17.12 and fr...

Kibana 8.10.1 Security Update

Kibana Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File ESA-2023-17 An issue was discovered by Elastic whereby sensitive information is recorded in Kibana logs in the event of an error. The issue impacts only Kibana version 8.10.0 when logging in the JSON layout or when the pattern layout is...

Elasticsearch Security Statement regarding CVE-2022-1471

Elasticsearch is not affected by this issue. Elasticsearch is not affected by the issue described in CVE-2022-1471 as, in general, it does not use Snakeyaml to parse YAML. Summary Elasticsearch supports YAML as a format for search queries, and it also uses YAML for its configuration files i.e...

Elasticsearch 8.9.2 and 7.17.13 Security Update

Elasticsearch Insertion of sensitive information in audit logs ESA-2023-12 Elasticsearch generally filters out sensitive information and credentials before logging to the audit log. It was found that this filtering was not applied when requests to Elasticsearch use certain deprecated URIs for API...

Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) 2.13.3, 3.3.0 Security Update

ECE Denial of Service DoS issue ESA-2023-09 A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in ECE that could lead to the ECE Admin API server becoming unavailable if a maliciously crafted JWT is supplied. This is due to the use of a transitive dependency json-smart which parses nested arrays in...

Elasticsearch 8.8.2, 7.17.11 Security Update

Elasticsearch Denial of Service DoS issue ESA-2023-10 This issue only affects users that have at least one OpenID Connect authentication realm or at least one JWT authentication realm configured. A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in Elasticsearch that could lead to the service...

Kibana 8.7.1 Security Updates (ESA-2023-07, ESA-2023-08)

Kibana arbitrary code execution ESA-2023-07 Kibana contains an arbitrary code execution flaw. An attacker with write access to Kibana yaml or env configuration could add a specific payload that will attempt to execute JavaScript code. This could lead to the attacker executing arbitrary commands o...

Elastic Stack 8.7.0, 7.17.10 Security Updates

Filebeat Information Exposure ESA-2023-04 A flaw was discovered in the Filebeat httpjson input that allows the http request Authorization or Proxy-Authorization header contents to be leaked in the logs when debug logging is enabled. Affected Versions: All filebeat versions through 7.17.9 and 8.6....

Kibana 7.17.9 and 8.6.2 Security Update

Kibana open redirect issue ESA-2023-03 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 7.0.0 through 7.17.8 and 8.0.0 through 8.6.1 Solutions and...

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 8.4.0/7.17.7 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...

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...

Kibana 7.17.8 and 8.5.0 Security Update

Update Log 2022-12-23 : Updated impact section with additional details. 2023-01-09 : Updated impact section to include RHEL 2023-01-23 : Updated impact section with additional details. Updated Solutions and Mitigations section with new mitigation option. Updated Affected Versions section. Kibana...

Elastic Security Statement for OpenSSL CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2022-3602, OpenSSL version 3.0.7

Elastic Products are not affected by this issue. On Oct 25, 2022, Elastic became aware of the Forthcoming OpenSSL 3.0.7 Release announcement, which was made available on Nov 1, 2022. The security issues addressed in this release do not affect OpenSSL versions before 3.0. Elastic has performed an...

Elastic Cloud Enterprise 3.1.1 Security Update

Elastic Cloud Enterprise Sensitive information disclosure issue ESA-2022-11 A flaw was discovered in ECE before 3.1.1 that could lead to the disclosure of the SAML signing private key used for the RBAC features, in deployment logs in the Logging and Monitoring cluster. Affected Versions: Elastic...

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 8.4.0, 7.17.6 Security Statement

Elastic Statement for Oracle July Critical Patch Update CVE-2022-21540, CVE-2022-21541, CVE-2022-21549, CVE-2022-25647, CVE-2022-34169 Summary : Oracle released their July Critical Patch Update for Java SE which contains 5 CVEs. Elastic has analyzed the flaws described by these CVEs and the...

Elastic 8.3.1, 8.3.0, and 7.17.5 Security Update

Kibana cross-site-scripting XSS issue ESA-2022-08 A cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability was discovered in the Vega Charts Kibana integration which could allow arbitrary JavaScript to be executed in a victim’s browser. Affected Versions: Versions 7.0.0 through 7.17.4 and 8.0.0 through 8.2.3...

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...

Kibana 7.17.3 and 8.1.3 Security Update

Kibana Exposure of Sensitive Information ESA-2022-05 A vulnerability in Kibana could expose sensitive information related to Elastic Stack monitoring in the Kibana page source. Elastic Stack monitoring features provide a way to keep a pulse on the health and performance of your Elasticsearch...

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...

Logstash 5.0.0-6.8.20 and 7.0.0-7.16.0: Log4j CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046 remediation

Note — These instructions only apply if you are running Logstash 5.0.0 - 6.8.20, or 7.0.0 - 7.16.0. If you are running an older version of Logstash, or a version of Logstash = 6.8.21 in the 6.x series or = 7.16.1 in the 7.x series, these instructions do not apply. Please follow the guidance in ma...

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...

APM Java Agent Security Update

APM Java Agent Local Privilege Escalation issue ESA-2021-30 A local privilege escalation issue was found with the APM Java agent, where a user on the system could attach a malicious plugin to an application running the APM Java agent. By using this vulnerability, an attacker could execute code at...

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...

APM Java Agent Security Update

APM Java Agent Local Privilege Escalation issue ESA-2021-29 A local privilege escalation issue was found with the APM Java agent, where a user on the system could attach a malicious file to an application running with the APM Java agent. Using this vector, a malicious or compromised user account...

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 7.14.1 Security Update

Kibana code execution issue ESA-2021-21 It was discovered that a user with fleet admin permissions could upload a malicious package. Due to using an older version of the js-yaml library, this package would be loaded in an insecure manner, allowing an attacker to execute commands on the kibana...

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 Cloud Enterprise security update

Elastic Cloud Enterprise security update ESA-2021-17 Elastic Cloud Enterprise has the Elasticsearch “anonymous” user enabled by default in deployed clusters. While in the default setting the anonymous user has no permissions and is unable to successfully query any Elasticsearch APIs, an attacker...

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...

Elasticsearch 7.13.3 and 6.8.17 Security Update

Elasticsearch Denial of Service issue ESA-2021-15 An uncontrolled recursion vulnerability that could lead to a denial of service attack was identified in the Elasticsearch Grok parser. A user with the ability to submit arbitrary queries to Elasticsearch could create a malicious Grok query that wi...

Elastic APM .NET Agent 1.10.0 Security Update

Elastic APM .NET Agent information disclosure ESA-2021-14 The Elastic APM .NET Agent can leak sensitive HTTP header information when logging the details during an application error. Normally, the APM agent will sanitize sensitive HTTP header details before sending the information to the APM serve...

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....

7.12.1 Security Update

Kibana denial of service issue ESA-2021-10 A denial of service vulnerability was found in the Kibana webhook actions due to a lack of timeout or a limit on the request size. An attacker with permissions to create webhook actions could drain the Kibana host connection pool, making Kibana unavailab...

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...