CVE-2019-7611

mediumpriority · track · 33EPSS 0.021 · 82 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.15% (82nd) EPSS

CVSS 6.8 · medium

Is it mine?

5 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-23

A permission issue was found in Elasticsearch versions before 5.6.15 and 6.6.1 when Field Level Security and Document Level Security are disabled and the _aliases, _shrink, or _split endpoints are used . If the elasticsearch.yml file has xpack.security.dls_fls.enabled set to false, certain permission checks are skipped when users perform one of the actions mentioned above, to make existing data available under a new index/alias name. This could result in an attacker gaining additional permissions against a restricted index.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.1

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.8–8.1

v2.06.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 6.4

v3.18.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.2 · impact 5.9

v3.18.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.17.4highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-284USCWE-284US

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Elastic Elasticsearch≤ before 5.6.15 and 6.6.1enisa_euvdEU
elastic elasticsearch< 5.6.15nvdUScpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
elastic elasticsearch6.0.0 → 6.6.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch< 5.6.15osvUSpkg:maven/org.elasticsearch/elasticsearch
Maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch6.0.0 → 6.6.1osvUSpkg:maven/org.elasticsearch/elasticsearch

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-fj32-6v7m-57pgImproper Access Control in Elasticsearch2022-05-13ghsa · osvUS
A permission issue was found in Elasticsearch versions before 5.6.15 and 6.6.1 when Field Level Security and Document Level Security are disabled and the _aliases, _shrink, or _split endpoints are used . If the elasticsearch.yml file has xpack.security.dls_fls.enabled set to false, certain permission checks are skipped when users perform one of the actions mentioned above, to make existing data available under a new index/alias name. This could result in an attacker gaining additional permissions against a restricted index.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2019-03-25modified 2026-06-17

references (12)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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