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CVE-2023-45807 OpenSearch

Affected softwareOpenSearch
Severity5.4 Medium CVSS 3.1 2 scores
Fixed in2.11.0.0, 1.3.14.0
WeaknessCWE-281
Published16 Oct 2023
Updated17 Jun 2026

Description

OpenSearch is a community-driven, open source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana following the license change in early 2021. There is an issue with the implementation of tenant permissions in OpenSearch Dashboards where authenticated users with read-only access to a tenant can perform create, edit and delete operations on index metadata of dashboards and visualizations in that tenant, potentially rendering them unavailable. This issue does not affect index data, only metadata. Dashboards correctly enforces read-only permissions when indexing and updating documents. This issue does not provide additional read access to data users don’t already have. This issue can be mitigated by disabling the tenants functionality for the cluster. Versions 1.3.14 and 2.11.0 contain a fix for this issue.

Exploitation status

No public exploit

No exploit has been reported in the sources we check. Published 3 years ago.

  • CISA KEV not listed
  • VulnCheck KEV not listed
  • CISA Vulnrichment exploitation: none
  • Indexed PoC none indexed
  • EPSS 0.49% chance in 30 days

Waratek protection

No exploit published

Within Waratek scope. In the sources we check, nobody has published exploit code for this CVE or reported it being exploited.

A public code fix exists.

  • Protection none
  • Action unverified
  • Review automated Upstream data
  • Record active
Decided by Medium or Low severity, no CISA or VulnCheck KEV listing, no PoC clearing the evidence bar, no CISA verdict, no Oracle advisory
Finding This CVE is MEDIUM severity, is not listed in CISA KEV or VulnCheck KEV, has no public exploit or PoC in any indexed source, carries no CISA Vulnrichment finding of a demonstrated exploit, and is not part of an Oracle Critical Patch Update. None of the signals that would put it in front of an engineer is present, and the volume of CVEs below that bar is too great to take one at a time, so no rule is written for it. This is a decision about what we act on, not a finding that the CVE is harmless — a patch may well be derivable, and a low-severity defect can still be one link in a longer chain.
Candidate fix https://github.com/opensearch-project/security/security/advisories/GHSA-72q2-gwwf-6hrv : the maintainers' own security advisory: names the version that fixes it, so the fix is the difference between two releases

CVSS

5.4 MEDIUM v3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L 2 metrics

We show the highest score from the newest CVSS version. Scores from different versions can't be compared, and the first score listed is sometimes a 0.0 placeholder.

VersionScoreBandVectorAssignerType
CVSS 3.1 5.4 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L security-advisories@github.com Secondary published
CVSS 3.1 5.4 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L NVD Primary

Affected software and releases

Maven packages

Affected and fixed versions, from OSV.dev
PackageIntroducedFixedLast affected
org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-security 2.0.0.0 2.11.0.0 unbounded
org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-security 0 1.3.14.0 unbounded

Products and versions

2 products, 4 version entries
SourceVendorProductSchemeAffected versions
nvd amazon opensearch generic < 1.3.14.0 · ≥ 2.0.0 and < 2.11.0.0
osv org.opensearch.plugin opensearch-security generic < 1.3.14.0 · ≥ 2.0.0.0 and < 2.11.0.0

References

URLTags
https://github.com/opensearch-project/security/security/advisories/GHSA-72q2-gwwf-6hrv advisory
https://github.com/opensearch-project/security PACKAGE

Timeline

Published2023-10-16By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified2026-06-17NVD's own last-modified date for this record.