In Elasticsearch before 7.9.0 and 6.8.12 a field disclosure flaw was found when running a scrolling search with Field Level Security. If a user runs the same query another more privileged user recently ran, the scrolling search can leak fields that should be hidden. This could result in an attacker gaining additional permissions against a restricted index.

Affected Packages

Maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch

Affected versions: 7.0.0 (fixed in 7.9.0)

Maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch

Affected versions: 0 (fixed in 6.8.12)

Related CVEs

CVE-2020-7019

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-c77j-p484-h84m

Published

May 24, 2022 5:26 PM

Last Modified

June 16, 2023 10:14 PM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Maven

Primary Package

org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch

GitHub Reviewed

✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: November 26, 2025 6:30 AM

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