CVE-2019-7614 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization in Elasticsearch

What is CVE-2019-7614?

CVE-2019-7614 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, published on 30 Jul 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A race condition flaw was found in the response headers Elasticsearch versions before 7.2.1 and 6.8.2 returns to a request. On a system with multiple users submitting requests, it could be possible for an attacker to gain access to response header containing sensitive data from another user.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-7614?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch. It affects 1 product.

Products include Elastic Elasticsearch.

How do I fix CVE-2019-7614?

Upgrade org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch to a fixed version for your release line: 6.8.2 or 7.2.1.

Is CVE-2019-7614 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-7614 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Elastic Elasticsearch

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• CVE-2014-3120 Elasticsearch Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.1
• CVE-2015-5377 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-72649 Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Elasticsearch Leading to Remote Code Execution High 8.8
• CVE-2026-72642 Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset in the Elasticsearch Machine Learning Native Inference Process High 8.8

All Elastic Elasticsearch vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-jqm6-m3j3-8gg9.