TI-2023-11077 Aliases CVE-2023-25806 GHSA-c6wg-cm5x-rqvj

Time discrepancy in authentication responses in OpenSearch

LOW 30CWE-208Published 2023-03-02 · Updated 2025-03-05

Key facts

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

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-208.

Summary

OpenSearch Security is a plugin for OpenSearch that offers encryption, authentication and authorization. There is an observable discrepancy in the authentication response time between calls where the user provided exists and calls where it does not. This issue only affects calls using the internal basic identity provider (IdP), and not other externally configured IdPs. Patches were released in versions 1.3.9 and 2.6.0, there are no workarounds.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00328 26th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Fixed security (opensearch-project): 1.3.9, 2.6.0org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-security (Maven): 1.3.9, 2.6.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: Yes
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	before 1.3.9; 2.0.0 to before 2.6.0	1.3.9, 2.6.0	Patch available	CNA
—	org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-security (Maven)	before 1.3.9	1.3.9	Patch available	GHSA-c6wg-cm5x-rqvj
—	org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-security (Maven)	2.0.0 to before 2.6.0	2.6.0	Patch available	GHSA-c6wg-cm5x-rqvj

security VendorAWS Affected before 1.3.9; 2.0.0 to before 2.6.0 Fixed in 1.3.9, 2.6.0 Patch available CNA
org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-security (Maven) Vendor— Affected before 1.3.9 Fixed in 1.3.9 Patch available GHSA-c6wg-cm5x-rqvj
org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-security (Maven) Vendor— Affected 2.0.0 to before 2.6.0 Fixed in 2.6.0 Patch available GHSA-c6wg-cm5x-rqvj

CPE configurations NVD · 2

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:amazon:opensearch::::::docker::*	before 1.3.9; 2.0.0 to before 2.6.0	Vulnerable	AWS
cpe:2.3:a:amazon:opensearch_security::::::opensearch::*	before 1.3.9; 2.0.0 to before 2.6.0	Vulnerable	AWS

cpe:2.3:a:amazon:opensearch:*:*:*:*:*:docker:*:* Versions before 1.3.9; 2.0.0 to before 2.6.0 Vulnerable ·AWS
cpe:2.3:a:amazon:opensearch_security:*:*:*:*:*:opensearch:*:* Versions before 1.3.9; 2.0.0 to before 2.6.0 Vulnerable ·AWS

Remediation

Fix · CNA security (opensearch-project) Fixed in 1.3.9, 2.6.0
Fix · GHSA-c6wg-cm5x-rqvj org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-security (Maven) Fixed in 1.3.9 Advisory →
Fix · GHSA-c6wg-cm5x-rqvj org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-security (Maven) Fixed in 2.6.0 Advisory →

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

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Not affected: 1 product

Red Hat

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-25806
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-c6wg-cm5x-rqvj

References

Advisory 2

Other 2

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-2023-09442 Field-level security issue with .keyword fields in OpenSearch CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
TI-2022-20259 Issue with fine-grained access control of indices backing data streams CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.3

See all 10 →

Sources

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