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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-22146

All versions of Elastic Cloud Enterprise has the Elasticsearch “anonymous” user enabled by default in deployed clusters. While in the default setting the anonymous user has no permissions and is unable to successfully query any Elasticsearch APIs, an attacker could leverage the anonymous user to gain insight into certain details of a deployed cluster.

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1 Nov 2026, 04:57 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-22146

core-osv · Original source

Published 21 Jul 2021, 15:15 UTC

All versions of Elastic Cloud Enterprise has the Elasticsearch “anonymous” user enabled by default in deployed clusters. While in the default setting the anonymous user has no permissions and is unable to successfully query any Elasticsearch APIs, an attacker could leverage the anonymous user to gain insight into certain details of a deployed cluster.

osv:CVE-2021-22146
Complete source record
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    "summary": "All versions of Elastic Cloud Enterprise has the Elasticsearch “anonymous” user enabled by default in deployed clusters. While in the default setting the anonymous user has no permissions and is unable to successfully query any Elasticsearch APIs, an attacker could leverage the anonymous user to gain insight into certain details of a deployed cluster.",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:23.353293204Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-enterprise-security-update/279180",
        "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210819-0005/"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 430901,
  "published_at": "2021-07-21T15:15:14.1+00:00"
}