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Issue with fine-grained access control of indices backing data streams

Moderate
CEHENKLE published GHSA-wmx7-x4jp-9jgg Nov 15, 2022

Package

docker OpenSearch (Docker)

Affected versions

<1.3.7; <2.4.0

Patched versions

>=1.3.7; >=2.4.0
maven org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-security (Maven)
<1.3.7; <2.4.0
>=1.3.7; >=2.4.0

Description

Impact

There is an issue with the implementation of fine-grained access control rules (document-level security, field-level security and field masking) where they are not correctly applied to the indices that back data streams potentially leading to incorrect access authorization. This issue can only be triggered by authenticated users authorized to read those data streams which are backed by the impacted indexes. Additionally, existing privileged users cannot access random indexes within these clusters; they can only access indexes to which they have already been granted permission.

Patches

OpenSearch 1.3.7 and 2.4.0 contain a fix for this issue.

Workarounds

There is no recommended work around.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please contact AWS/Amazon Security via our issue reporting page (https://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting/) or directly via email to aws-security@amazon.com. Please do not create a public GitHub issue.

Severity

Moderate
6.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CVE ID

CVE-2022-41918

Weaknesses