CVE-2021-22149: Elastic Enterprise Search

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Elastic Enterprise Search App Search versions before 7.14.0 are vulnerable to an issue where API keys were missing authorization via an alternate route. Using this vulnerability, an authenticated attacker could utilize API keys belonging to higher privileged users.

Affected products

• Elastic Enterprise Search: before 7.14.0 (fixed in 7.14.0)

Published 2021-09-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.