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CVE-2021-37937mediumCWE-269

Elasticsearch privilege escalation

13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 5.9epss 0.7%
exploitation probability
0.7%top 50% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
An issue was found with how API keys are created with the Fleet-Server service account. When an API key is created with a service account, it is possible that the API key could be created with higher privileges than intended. Using this vulnerability, a compromised Fleet-Server service account could escalate themselves to a super-user.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Affected products
Elastic · Elasticsearch