TI-2023-09442 Aliases CVE-2023-23613 GHSA-v3cg-7r9h-r2g6

Field-level security issue with .keyword fields in OpenSearch

LOW 30CWE-200Published 2023-01-24 · Updated 2025-03-10

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Information disclosure
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: High · None · None
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-200.

Summary

OpenSearch is an open source distributed and RESTful search engine. In affected versions there is an issue in the implementation of field-level security (FLS) and field masking where rules written to explicitly exclude fields are not correctly applied for certain queries that rely on their auto-generated .keyword fields. This issue is only present for authenticated users with read access to the indexes containing the restricted fields. This may expose data which may otherwise not be accessible to the user. OpenSearch 1.0.0-1.3.7 and 2.0.0-2.4.1 are affected. Users are advised to upgrade to OpenSearch 1.3.8 or 2.5.0. Users unable to upgrade may write explicit exclusion rules as a workaround. Policies authored in this way are not subject to this issue.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00859 58th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Fixed security (opensearch-project): 2.5.0, 1.3.8org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-security (Maven): 1.3.8, 2.5.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
AWS	security	2.0.0 to before 2.5.0; before 1.3.8	2.5.0, 1.3.8	Patch available	CNA
—	org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-security (Maven)	before 1.3.8	1.3.8	Patch available	GHSA-v3cg-7r9h-r2g6
—	org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-security (Maven)	2.0.0 to before 2.5.0	2.5.0	Patch available	GHSA-v3cg-7r9h-r2g6

security VendorAWS Affected 2.0.0 to before 2.5.0; before 1.3.8 Fixed in 2.5.0, 1.3.8 Patch available CNA
org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-security (Maven) Vendor— Affected before 1.3.8 Fixed in 1.3.8 Patch available GHSA-v3cg-7r9h-r2g6
org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-security (Maven) Vendor— Affected 2.0.0 to before 2.5.0 Fixed in 2.5.0 Patch available GHSA-v3cg-7r9h-r2g6

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:amazon:opensearch::::::-::*	1.0.0 to before 1.3.8; 2.0.0 to before 2.5.0	Vulnerable	AWS

cpe:2.3:a:amazon:opensearch:*:*:*:*:*:-:*:* Versions 1.0.0 to before 1.3.8; 2.0.0 to before 2.5.0 Vulnerable ·AWS

Remediation

Fix · CNA security (opensearch-project) Fixed in 2.5.0, 1.3.8
Fix · GHSA-v3cg-7r9h-r2g6 org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-security (Maven) Fixed in 1.3.8 Advisory →
Fix · GHSA-v3cg-7r9h-r2g6 org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-security (Maven) Fixed in 2.5.0 Advisory →

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-23613
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-v3cg-7r9h-r2g6

References

Advisory 3

Other 1

https://github.com/opensearch-project/security

TI-2022-13159 Unsafe YAML deserialization in opensearch-ruby CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2025-08817 OpenSearch 3.2.0 - Nested Boolean/Disjunction asymmetric DoS CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.3
TI-2022-16405 OpenSearch vulnerable to Improper Authorization of Index Containing Sensitive Information CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
TI-2023-09441 Issue with whitespace in JWT roles in OpenSearch CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2023-11077 Time discrepancy in authentication responses in OpenSearch CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
TI-2022-20259 Issue with fine-grained access control of indices backing data streams CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.3

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Sources

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