CVE-2021-22146
All versions of Elastic Cloud Enterprise has the Elasticsearch “anonymous” user enabled by default in deployed clusters. While in the default setting the...
- Published
- Jul 21, 2021
- Updated
- Aug 3, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- elastic
- Evidence observed
- Jul 26, 2021
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NModerate · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 98.4%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
All versions of 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 could leverage the anonymous user to gain insight into certain details of a deployed cluster.
Sources
2- cve-2021-22146Exploit
PoC exploit for CVE-2021-22146 that dumps Elastic ECE databases (versions 7.10.0 to 7.13.3) during internal penetration tests.
Joan Martinez · multiple · Jul 26, 2021
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