Security Bulletin: Vulnerability affects IBM Observability with Instana

Summary

Vulnerability detected in Elasticsearch versions before 7.10.0 and 6.8.14 affects IBM Observability with Instana

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-7021
**DESCRIPTION:**Elasticsearch could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an error when audit logging and the emit_request_body option is enabled. By opening the audit log, a local authenticated attacker could obtain password hashes or authentication tokens and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 1.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/196943 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Update your existing installation of IBM Observability with Instana as described here: <https://www.instana.com/docs/self_hosted_instana/operations#upgrade-your-container-based-installation&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None