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CVE-2019-13416 json

Search Guard versions before 24.3 had an issue when Cross Cluster Search (CCS) was enabled, authenticated users are always authorized on th…

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-4910

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 62%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Search Guard versions before 24.3 had an issue when Cross Cluster Search (CCS) was enabled, authenticated users are always authorized on the local cluster ignoring their roles on the remote cluster(s).

Patch / fix

  • search-guard search_guard 24.3

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red hat product security vex CVE-2019-13416 updated cvss 5.3

search-guard: authenticated users ignoring their roles on the remote cluster

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.9 search-guard-2, openshift-elasticsearch-plugin Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.10 openshift-elasticsearch-plugin Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 openshift3/ose-logging-elasticsearch5 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-logging-elasticsearch5
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.99% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 62% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • floragunn Search Guard

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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