Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.117697
Category:	Privilege escalation
Title:	Elastic Elasticsearch Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (ESA-2021-25)
Summary:	Elastic Elasticsearch is prone to a privilege escalation; vulnerability.
Description:	Summary: Elastic Elasticsearch is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. Vulnerability Insight: An issue was found with how API keys are created with the fleet-server service account. When an API key is created with a service account, it is possible that the API key could be created with higher privileges than intended. Using this vulnerability, a compromised fleet-server service account could escalate themselves to a super-user. Affected Software/OS: Elastic Elasticsearch version 7.13.0 through 7.14.0. Solution: Update to version 7.14.1 or later. CVSS Score: 9.0 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2021-37937 https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-14-1-security-update/283077 https://www.elastic.co/community/security
Copyright	Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH

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