CVE-2019-13416: Search-Guard Search Guard

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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).

Affected products

• Search-Guard Search Guard: before 24.3 (fixed in 24.3)

Published 2019-08-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.