Medium
Security advisory
Elasticsearch versions 7.7.0 to 7.10.1 contain an information disclosure flaw in the async search API. Users who execute an async search will improperly store the HTTP headers. An Elasticsearch user with the ability to read the .tasks index could obtain sensitive request headers of other users in the cluster. This issue is fixed in Elasticsearch 7.10.2
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-22132
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:48 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Elasticsearch versions 7.7.0 to 7.10.1 contain an information disclosure flaw in the async search API. Users who execute an async search will improperly store the HTTP headers. An Elasticsearch user with the ability to read the .tasks index could obtain sensitive request headers of other users in the cluster. This issue is fixed in Elasticsearch 7.10.2
osv:CVE-2021-22132
Complete source record
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