Microsoft security update for CVE-2020-7014
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products1
- cm1 rubygem-elasticsearch 8.2.0-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update
1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 8.2.0-1 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2020-7014
- EchelonGraph score
- 8.8 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
The fix for CVE-2020-7009 was found to be incomplete. Elasticsearch versions from 6.7.0 to 6.8.7 and 7.0.0 to 7.6.1 contain a privilege escalation flaw if an attacker is able to create API keys and also authentication tokens. An attacker who is able to generate an API key and an authentication token can perform a series of steps that result in an authentication token being generated with elevated privileges.
Published by Elastic, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2020-7014, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).