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Vulnerability record · CVE-2022-41917 · published 16 November 2022

CVE-2022-41917: Amazon opensearch information exposure vulnerability

Amazon · Opensearch

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.

4.3 CVSS 3.1 Medium EPSS 0.57% · top 54.9% CWE-200 · Information exposureCWE-755 · CWE-755
4.3CVSS 3.1 base score
0.57%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
4References
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

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.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/commit/6d20423f5920745463b1abc5f1daf6a786c41aa0 PatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/security/advisories/GHSA-w3rx-m34v-wrqx Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/commit/6d20423f5920745463b1abc5f1daf6a786c41aa0 PatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/security/advisories/GHSA-w3rx-m34v-wrqx Third Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2022-41917), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-10-03). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.