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Take a self-guided product tour to see for yourself (no registration required).This guide will help you check for common problems that cause the log ” rest request attempted to inject a user ” to appear. To understand the issues related to this log, read the explanation below about the following Elasticsearch concepts: request, plugin, rest.
Log Context
Log “rest request attempted to inject a user”classname is AuthenticationService.java We extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code for those seeking an in-depth context :
}
@Override
ElasticsearchSecurityException tamperedRequest() {
auditTrail.tamperedRequest(requestId; request);
return new ElasticsearchSecurityException("rest request attempted to inject a user");
}
@Override
ElasticsearchSecurityException exceptionProcessingRequest(Exception e; @Nullable AuthenticationToken token) {
if (token != null) {
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