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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-22132

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

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1 Nov 2026, 06:48 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-22132

core-osv · Original source

Published 14 Jan 2021, 20:15 UTC

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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