VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-22149

CVSS score8.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.83%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-09-15
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

Elastic Enterprise Search App Search versions before 7.14.0 are vulnerable to an issue where API keys were missing authorization via an alternate route. Using this vulnerability, an authenticated attacker could utilize API keys belonging to higher privileged users.

Weakness classification

  • security@elastic.co: CWE-732
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-862

Primary references