Many users use a proxy with URL-based access control to secure access to Elasticsearch indices. For multi-search, multi-get and bulk requests, the user has the choice of specifying an index in the URL and on each individual request within the request body. This can make URL-based access control challenging.

To prevent the user from overriding the index which has been specified in the URL, add this setting to the elasticsearch.yml file:

rest.action.multi.allow_explicit_index: false

The default value is true, but when set to false, Elasticsearch will reject requests that have an explicit index specified in the request body.