CVE Feed

    Dashboard / CVE / CVE-2021-37937

    CVE-2021-37937

    An issue was found with how API keys are created with the Fleet-Server service account. When an API key is created with a service account, it is possible that the API key could be created with higher privileges than intended. Using this vulnerability, a compromised Fleet-Server service account could escalate themselves to a super-user.

    Published:Nov 22, 2023
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Nov 22, 2023
    EPSS Score:0.0018
    CVSS Score:5.9

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Elastic
    Product
    Elasticsearch

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2026-78607 (CVSS 5.4) — Missing Authorization (CWE-862) in the Elasticsearch custom inference service can lead to information disclosu…
    CVE-2026-78605 (CVSS 5.9) — Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request Smuggling') (CWE-444) in Elasticsearch can lead to…
    CVE-2026-72649 (CVSS 8.8) — Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CWE-502) in the Elasticsearch machine learning component can lead to remote…
    CVE-2026-56143 (CVSS 4.9) — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can lead to a denial of servic…
    CVE-2026-72636 (CVSS 6.5) — Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) in the Elasticsearch wildcard matching helper can lead to a denial of service…
    CVE-2026-72642 (CVSS 8.8) — The native inference process that Elasticsearch uses to evaluate uploaded machine learning models accepts a mo…
    CVE-2026-72639 (CVSS 6.5) — Elasticsearch does not enforce an upper bound on a user-supplied count accepted by a search highlighting optio…
    CVE-2026-72638 (CVSS 6.5) — Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Input Data Manipulation (C…
    CVE-2026-72647 (CVSS 6.5) — Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Serialized Data with Neste…
    CVE-2026-72645 (CVSS 6.5) — Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value (CWE-789) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Exces…

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High