What is CVE-2020-7019?

CVE-2020-7019 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, classified under Privilege Context Switching Error. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-08-18.

How severe is CVE-2020-7019?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in Elastic Elasticsearch

CVE-2020-7019

In Elasticsearch before 7.9.0 and 6.8.12 a field disclosure flaw was found when running a scrolling search with Field Level Security. If a user runs the same query another more privileged user recently ran, the scrolling search can leak fi…

EPSS: 0.012 (64.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Elastic Elasticsearch — versions before 7.9.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

security@elastic.co (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
security@elastic.co (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-7019?: CVE-2020-7019 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, classified under Privilege Context Switching Error. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-08-18.
How severe is CVE-2020-7019?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.