CVE-2024-43794: Opensearch-Project Security-Dashboards-Plugin

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OpenSearch Dashboards Security Plugin adds a configuration management UI for the OpenSearch Security features to OpenSearch Dashboards. Improper validation of the nextUrl parameter can lead to external redirect on login to OpenSearch-Dashboards for specially crafted parameters. A patch is available in 1.3.19 and 2.16.0 for this issue.

Affected products

• Opensearch-Project Security-Dashboards-Plugin: before 1.3.19 (fixed in 1.3.19); from 2.0.0, before 2.16.0 (fixed in 2.16.0)

Published 2024-08-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.