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CVE-2021-37937

Published: Nov 22, 2023 | Modified: Nov 30, 2023
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-37937
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Elasticsearch Elastic 7.13.0 (including) 7.14.0 (including)

References

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