Field-level security issue with .keyword fields in OpenSearch
### Advisory title: Field-level security issue with .keyword fields
### Affected versions:
OpenSearch 1.0.0-1.3.7 and 2.0.0-2.4.1
### Patched versions:
OpenSearch 1.3.8 and 2.5.0
### Impact:
There is an issue in the implementation of field-level security (FLS) and field masking where rules written to explicitly exclude fields are not correctly applied for certain queries that rely on their auto-generated .keyword fields.
This issue is only present for authenticated users with read access to the indexes containing the restricted fields.
### Workaround:
FLS rules that use explicit exclusions can be written to grant explicit access instead. Policies authored in this way are not subject to this issue.
### Patches:
OpenSearch versions 1.3.8 and 2.5.0 contain a fix for this issue.
### For more information:
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please contact AWS/Amazon Security via our issue reporting page (
https://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting/) or directly via email to [aws-security@amazon.com](mailto:aws-security@amazon.com). Please do not create a public GitHub issue.