CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedElasticsearch contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability that allows users with delegated administrative privileges to exploit role-management capabilities, potentially gaining access to restricted indices, including sensitive internal security data. This misconfiguration can lead to privilege escalation, enabling attackers to elevate their access to full administrative control of the cluster. Organizations using Elasticsearch, particularly those with complex role management, should prioritize remediation to mitigate the risk of unauthorized access and data exposure.
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Original NVD Description
Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Elasticsearch can lead to Privilege Escalation via a delegated administrative privilege whose scope is not fully enforced during authorization checks. Elasticsearch contains an incorrect authorization weakness in a configurable, non-default privilege that lets an administrator delegate limited role-management capability to another user, scoped to specific indices. The authorization check that enforces this scoping does not correctly account for a role-definition setting that can expand the matched index set. A user holding this delegated privilege with a broadly-scoped index pattern can exploit this inconsistency by updating their own assigned role to gain access to indices that should remain restricted, including internal security data. This can enable further escalation up to full administrative control of the cluster.
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