Apache CXF < 3.5.8, 3.6.x < 3.6.3, 4.0.x < 4.0.4 SSRF Vulnerability on SearchGuard plugins

Search Guard
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Our security scanner reports these packages as vulnerable. With Critical Severity. these packages are used by searchguard.
Package: search-guard-7/cxf-*

A SSRF vulnerability using the Aegis DataBinding in versions of Apache CXF before 4.0.4, 3.6.3 and 3.5.8 allows an attacker to perform SSRF style attacks on webservices that take at least one parameter of any type. Users of other data bindings (including the default databinding)

plugins/search-guard-7/cxf-core-3.3.7.jar

could you please provide the status of these findings, or information about mitigation/remediation

Thank you!

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Could you please share what version of Search Guard and Elasticsearch you’re running on this cluster ?

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This has been addressed with the release of SG 53.10.0

You can download it from the version matrix page, or directly from here.