CVE-2019-7619

Publication date 30 October 2019

Last updated 17 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Elasticsearch versions 7.0.0-7.3.2 and 6.7.0-6.8.3 contain a username disclosure flaw was found in the API Key service. An unauthenticated attacker could send a specially crafted request and determine if a username exists in the Elasticsearch native realm.

Read the notes from the security team

Mitigation

The API key service can be disabled by setting ‘xpack.security.authc.api_key.enabled’ to false in the Elasticsearch configuration file.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
elasticsearch	19.10 eoan	Not in release
	19.04 disco	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

seth-arnold

I believe our packages don't have the affected code

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N