Elastic Detection Engine Search API Bypasses DLS/FLS on .alerts-security.indices
CVE-2024-23446 Published on February 7, 2024
Kibana Broken Access Control issue
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.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-23446 is exploitable with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a high impact on confidentiality, with no impact on integrity and availability.
Weakness Type
What is an Authorization Vulnerability?
The software does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
CVE-2024-23446 has been classified to as an Authorization vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-23446
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Affected Versions
Elastic Kibana:- Version 8.12.0 and below 8.12.1 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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