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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2024-12539 json

Elasticsearch Incorrect Authorization

published 2024-12-17 22 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also BIT-elasticsearch-2024-12539 , EUVD-2024-3538 , GHSA-5mpw-4546-2wcr

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 40%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered where improper authorization controls affected certain queries that could allow a malicious actor to circumvent Document Level Security in Elasticsearch and get access to documents that their roles would normally not allow.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch 8.16.2
  • bitnami elasticsearch 8.17.0
  • elastic elasticsearch 8.16.2
  • elasticsearch elasticsearch 8.16.2
  • org.elasticsearch elasticsearch 8.16.2

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-12539 updated cvss 6.5

elasticsearch: improper auth controls can allow circumvention of Document Level Security

  • Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-logging/fluentd-rhel8, openshift-logging/kibana6-rhel8 Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-rhel8
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
22 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 6.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 6.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch
>=8.16.0, <8.16.2
8.16.2
bitnami elasticsearch
>=8.16.0, <8.17.0
8.17.0

Affected products

  • Elastic Elasticsearch

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.