Security
Elastic Stack and Liferay Enterprise Search Security Advisory: CVE-2023-46671, CVE-2023-46673
The following issues may affect your Liferay-Elastic stack.
Vulnerability Information
Kibana Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File (ESA-2023-25, CVE-2023-46671)
Refer to https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-11-1-security-update-esa-2023-25/347149 for details and mitigation.
Elasticsearch Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions (ESA-2023-24, CVE-2023-46673)
Refer to https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-14-8-10-3-security-update-esa-2023-24/347708 for details and mitigation.
Additional Information
Regarding CVE-2023-46673: Liferay's out-of-the-box features are not using the Simulate Pipeline API affected by this vulnerability.
Search Engine Compatibility
As usual, Liferay recommends to its customers to upgrade their production Elastic stack to the latest available and compatible release of 7.x/8.x. Reference the information here for the detailed Elasticsearch compatibility including the compatible connector versions and required update/patch levels.
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