CVE-2022-41917

Incorrect Error Handling Allowed Partial File Reads Over REST API in OpenSearch

MEDIUM

4.3

CVSS Score

Published: November 15, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 05:04 AM UTC

2 products affected across 2 vendorsOpensearchOpenSearch

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Severity

MEDIUM4.3

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.6%

SSVC

No known exploit

Description

OpenSearch is a community-driven, open source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana. OpenSearch allows users to specify a local file when defining text analyzers to process data for text analysis. An issue in the implementation of this feature allows certain specially crafted queries to return a response containing the first line of text from arbitrary files. The list of potentially impacted files is limited to text files with read permissions allowed in the Java Security Manager policy configuration. OpenSearch version 1.3.7 and 2.4.0 contain a fix for this issue. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Opensearch · Amazonmaven

95%

1.0.0 ≤ v < 1.3.72.0.0 ≤ v < 2.4.0

Affected range stops below 1.3.7, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 2.4.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

OpenSearch · Opensearch

60%

v < 1.3.7v < 2.4.0

Affected range stops below 1.3.7, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 2.4.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/commit/6d20423f5920745463b1abc5f1daf6a786c41aa0

References (2)

PatchThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/commit/6d20423f5920745463b1abc5f1daf6a786c41aa0

Third Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/security/advisories/GHSA-w3rx-m34v-wrqx

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

4.3MEDIUMGitHub_M

Attack Vector: NETWORK
Complexity: LOW
Privileges: LOW
User Interaction: NONE
Scope: UNCHANGED
Confidentiality: LOW
Integrity: NONE
Availability: NONE

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-200CWE-755

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