Medium severity · published Feb 7, 2024
CVE-2024-23446
An issue was discovered by Elastic, whereby the Detection Engine Search API does not respect Document-level security (DLS) or Field-level security (FLS) when querying the…
6.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered by Elastic, whereby the Detection Engine Search API does not respect Document-level security (DLS) or Field-level security (FLS) when querying the .alerts-security.alerts-{space_id} indices. Users who are authorized to call this API may obtain unauthorized access to documents if their roles are configured with DLS or FLS against the aforementioned index.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 43% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KI
Kibana · Elastic
8.0.0 before 8.12.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-23446
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-23446
Vendor Advisory
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-12-1-security-update-esa-2024-01/352686
Vendor Advisory
https://www.elastic.co/community/security
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