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Group search with Elastic search enable leaks unrelated data

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Reported by rpadovani

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Improper Access Control - Generic
### Summary Performing a group search when Elastic Search is enabled provides access to unrelated merge requests, issues activity, leaking the existence of private groups, plus their activity and MRs. This happens both on the GUI and with the APIs ### Steps to reproduce Let's take this search on the Gitlab group: https://gitlab.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&snippets=&scope=merge_requests&repository_ref=&search=%21435&group_id=9970 If you go at the end of the page, you see 5 MRs from other groups that should be private - I have no idea what are those projects - I have no relation to them, and I have no access to the group they belong to! (See attached screenshot). A lot more data can be retrieved through the APIs, now revealing existence of groups/projects I shouldn't know they exist! I haven't fully understand the logic of the issue, but basically every combination of ! followed by numbers (I had hits with !709, !999) leaks MRs from other groups. While on the UI doesn't show much info, the APIs retrieve a lot of data. It also leaks private activity on public issues. If you search for `nextbit`, [link](https://gitlab.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&snippets=&scope=notes&repository_ref=&search=nextbit&group_id=9970), you see that my main account has linked a private issue to a public issue. The activity should be private, and indeed it is not reported inside the issue itself, but it is reported in the search. ### Impact Leaking existence of private groups, private issues activity, private MRs, with lot of metadata ## Impact Leak of private MRs with metadata, activity of private issues, leak existence of private groups

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Improper Access Control - Generic