CVE-2021-22149

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2021-09-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-732

Description

Elastic Enterprise Search App Search versions before 7.14.0 are vulnerable to an issue where API keys were missing authorization via an alternate route. Using this vulnerability, an authenticated attacker could utilize API keys belonging to higher privileged users.

Affected products

Elastic Enterprise Search: before 7.14.0 — fixed in 7.14.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Elastic Enterprise Search 7.14.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-14-0-security-update/280344
https://www.elastic.co/community/security/
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-14-0-security-update/280344
https://www.elastic.co/community/security/

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