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...

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...