Elastic Elasticsearch

52 CVEs affecting Elastic Elasticsearch. Latest disclosed: 2026-07-01. Critical: 2, High: 9.

Top CVEs affecting Elastic Elasticsearch
CVESeverityScorePublishedSummary
CVE-2015-5377Critical9.82018-03-06Elasticsearch before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving the transport protocol. NOTE: ZDI appears to cl…
CVE-2015-1427Critical9.82015-02-17The Groovy scripting engine in Elasticsearch before 1.3.8 and 1.4.x before 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to bypass the sandbox protection mechanism and execute…
CVE-2020-7014High8.82020-06-03The fix for CVE-2020-7009 was found to be incomplete. Elasticsearch versions from 6.7.0 to 6.8.7 and 7.0.0 to 7.6.1 contain a privilege escalation flaw if an a…
CVE-2020-7009High8.82020-03-31Elasticsearch versions from 6.7.0 before 6.8.8 and 7.0.0 before 7.6.2 contain a privilege escalation flaw if an attacker is able to create API keys. An attacke…
CVE-2018-3831High8.82018-09-19Elasticsearch Alerting and Monitoring in versions before 6.4.1 or 5.6.12 have an information disclosure issue when secrets are configured via the API. The Elas…
CVE-2019-7611High8.12019-03-25A permission issue was found in Elasticsearch versions before 5.6.15 and 6.6.1 when Field Level Security and Document Level Security are disabled and the _alia…
CVE-2018-3827High8.12018-09-19A sensitive data disclosure flaw was found in the Elasticsearch repository-azure (formerly elasticsearch-cloud-azure) plugin. When the repository-azure plugin…
CVE-2014-3120High8.12014-07-28The default configuration in Elasticsearch before 1.2 enables dynamic scripting, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary MVEL expressions and Java c…
CVE-2023-31418High7.52023-10-26An issue has been identified with how Elasticsearch handled incoming requests on the HTTP layer. An unauthenticated user could force an Elasticsearch node to e…
CVE-2022-23712High7.52022-06-06A Denial of Service flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch. Using this vulnerability, an unauthenticated attacker could forcibly shut down an Elasticsearch node…
CVE-2021-22146High7.52021-07-21All versions of Elastic Cloud Enterprise has the Elasticsearch “anonymous” user enabled by default in deployed clusters. While in the default setting the anony…
CVE-2025-37731Medium6.82025-12-15Improper Authentication in Elasticsearch PKI realm can lead to user impersonation via specially crafted client certificates. A malicious actor would need to ha…
CVE-2026-49090Medium6.52026-07-01Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Elasticsearch can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user can su…
CVE-2026-56148Medium6.52026-07-01Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) in Elasticsearch can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user can submit a spec…
CVE-2025-68384Medium6.52025-12-18Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can allow a low-privileged authenticated user to cause Excessive Allocation (CA…
CVE-2024-52979Medium6.52025-05-01Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Elasticsearch while evaluating specifically crafted search templates with Mustache functions can lead to Denial of Service…
CVE-2024-52980Medium6.52025-04-08A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, where a large recursion using the innerForbidCircularReferences function of the PatternBank class could cause the Elast…
CVE-2024-43709Medium6.52025-01-21An allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Elasticsearch can lead to an OutOfMemoryError exception resulting in a crash via a specially crafted…
CVE-2024-12539Medium6.52024-12-17An issue was discovered where improper authorization controls affected certain queries that could allow a malicious actor to circumvent Document Level Security…
CVE-2024-23445Medium6.52024-06-12It was identified that if a cross-cluster API key https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.14/security-api-create-cross-cluster-api-key.html#…