CVE-2021-22146

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

All versions of Elastic Cloud Enterprise has the Elasticsearch “anonymous” user enabled by default in deployed clusters. While in the default setting the anonymous user has no permissions and is unable to successfully query any Elasticsearch APIs, an attacker could leverage the anonymous user to gain insight into certain details of a deployed cluster.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Jul 21, 2021
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2021-22146: High severity, CVSS 7.5 | Vulnix