CVE-2020-7021

mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.015 · 74 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.47% (74th) EPSS

CVSS 4 · medium

Is it mine?

7 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Elasticsearch versions before 7.10.0 and 6.8.14 have an information disclosure issue when audit logging and the emit_request_body option is enabled. The Elasticsearch audit log could contain sensitive information such as password hashes or authentication tokens. This could allow an Elasticsearch administrator to view these details.

cvss

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

4.9

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 2.9

v3.14.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.2 · impact 3.6

v3.14.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.14.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-532USprimaryCWE-532US

affected products (7)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Elastic Elasticsearch≤ before 7.10.0 and 6.8.14enisa_euvdEU
elastic elasticsearch< 6.8.14nvdUScpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
elastic elasticsearch7.0.0 → 7.10.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami elasticsearch< 6.8.14osvUSpkg:bitnami/elasticsearch
Bitnami elasticsearch7.0.0 → 7.10.0osvUSpkg:bitnami/elasticsearch
Maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch< 6.8.14osvUSpkg:maven/org.elasticsearch/elasticsearch
Maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch7.0.0 → 7.10.0osvUSpkg:maven/org.elasticsearch/elasticsearch

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-cqgv-256r-m9r8Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File in Elasticsearch2022-05-24ghsa · osvUS
Elasticsearch versions before 7.10.0 and 6.8.14 have an information disclosure issue when audit logging and the emit_request_body option is enabled. The Elasticsearch audit log could contain sensitive information such as password hashes or authentication tokens. This could allow an Elasticsearch administrator to view these details.
BIT-elasticsearch-2020-70212024-03-06vendor · osvUS
Elasticsearch versions before 7.10.0 and 6.8.14 have an information disclosure issue when audit logging and the emit_request_body option is enabled. The Elasticsearch audit log could contain sensitive information such as password hashes or authentication tokens. This could allow an Elasticsearch administrator to view these details.

also known as (5)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-02-10modified 2026-06-17

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references (11)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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