CVE-2024-12539 Elasticsearch Incorrect Authorization

What is CVE-2024-12539?

CVE-2024-12539 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, published on 17 Dec 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered where improper authorization controls affected certain queries that could allow a malicious actor to circumvent Document Level Security in Elasticsearch and get access to documents that their roles would normally not allow.

Weakness: CWE-863

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12539?

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

Products include Elastic Elasticsearch.

How do I fix CVE-2024-12539?

Upgrade org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch to 8.16.2 or later.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2024-12539 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12539 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2015-1427 Elasticsearch Groovy Scripting Engine Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• 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
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-elasticsearch-2024-12539, GHSA-5mpw-4546-2wcr, MINI-hhxr-g58x-7cc2, MINI-xmff-3qpr-rh4g, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-12539.