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GHSA-99pc-69q9-jxf2: Elasticsearch allows insertion of sensitive information into log files when using deprecated URIs

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 APIs. The impact of this flaw is that sensitive information such as passwords and tokens might be printed in cleartext in Elasticsearch audit logs. Note that audit logging is disabled by default and needs to be explicitly enabled and even when audit logging is enabled, request bodies that could contain sensitive information are not printed to the audit log unless explicitly configured.

The _xpack/security APIs have been deprecated in Elasticsearch 7.x and were entirely removed in 8.0.0 and later. The only way for a client to use them in Elasticsearch 8.0.0 and later is to provide the Accept: application/json; compatible-with=7 header. Elasticsearch official clients do not use these deprecated APIs.

The list of affected, deprecated APIs, is the following:

POST /_xpack/security/user/{username} PUT /_xpack/security/user/{username} PUT /_xpack/security/user/{username}/_password POST /_xpack/security/user/{username}/_password PUT /_xpack/security/user/_password POST /_xpack/security/user/_password POST /_xpack/security/oauth2/token DELETE /_xpack/security/oauth2/token POST /_xpack/security/saml/authenticate

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  1. GitHub Advisory Database
  2. GitHub Reviewed
  3. CVE-2023-31417

Elasticsearch allows insertion of sensitive information into log files when using deprecated URIs

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 26, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Oct 30, 2023

Package

maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 7.0.0, < 7.17.13

>= 8.0.0, < 8.9.2

Patched versions

7.17.13

8.9.2

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 APIs. The impact of this flaw is that sensitive information such as passwords and tokens might be printed in cleartext in Elasticsearch audit logs. Note that audit logging is disabled by default and needs to be explicitly enabled and even when audit logging is enabled, request bodies that could contain sensitive information are not printed to the audit log unless explicitly configured.

The _xpack/security APIs have been deprecated in Elasticsearch 7.x and were entirely removed in 8.0.0 and later. The only way for a client to use them in Elasticsearch 8.0.0 and later is to provide the Accept: application/json; compatible-with=7 header. Elasticsearch official clients do not use these deprecated APIs.

The list of affected, deprecated APIs, is the following:

POST /_xpack/security/user/{username}
PUT /_xpack/security/user/{username}
PUT /_xpack/security/user/{username}/_password
POST /_xpack/security/user/{username}/_password
PUT /_xpack/security/user/_password
POST /_xpack/security/user/_password
POST /_xpack/security/oauth2/token
DELETE /_xpack/security/oauth2/token
POST /_xpack/security/saml/authenticate

References

  • https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-31417
  • https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-9-2-and-7-17-13-security-update/342479
  • https://www.elastic.co/community/security

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database

Oct 26, 2023

Last updated

Oct 30, 2023

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