CVE-2020-7021: Elastic Elasticsearch

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Elasticsearch versions before 7.10.0 and 6.8.14 have an information disclosure issue when audit logging and the emit_request_body option is enabled. The Elasticsearch audit log could contain sensitive information such as password hashes or authentication tokens. This could allow an Elasticsearch administrator to view these details.

Affected products

• Elastic Elasticsearch: before 6.8.14 (fixed in 6.8.14); from 7.0.0, before 7.10.0 (fixed in 7.10.0)

Published 2021-02-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.