java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException on X-pack enabled ABAC system

KB/ES version: 7.2
I am trying to build an ABAC security based Multi-Tenant system with X-Pack platinum license.
There is an Index which have multiple Client's data. The Admin who has access to all three Client's data able to view the Kibana Dashboards properly. However, Users and Admin with 2 out of 3 accounts access are unable to view the dashboard.
Whenever the user access the Dashboard the following Error pops up.

Error: Request to Elasticsearch failed: {"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"unsupported_operation_exception","reason":"unsupported_operation_exception: null"}],"type":"search_phase_execution_exception","reason":"all shards failed","phase":"query","grouped":true,"failed_shards":[{"shard":0,"index":"unified_asset_processed","node":"MtkL9yGKQPyJZu3an3ICvw","reason":{"type":"unsupported_operation_exception","reason":"unsupported_operation_exception: null"}}]},"status":500}

Detailed Logs in ES can be seen like below:

org.elasticsearch.transport.RemoteTransportException: [elkxx-1][ip-address:9300][indices:data/read/search[phase/query]]
Caused by: org.elasticsearch.search.query.QueryPhaseExecutionException: Query Failed [Failed to execute main query]
        at org.elasticsearch.search.query.QueryPhase.execute(QueryPhase.java:306) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.search.query.QueryPhase.execute(QueryPhase.java:114) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService.loadOrExecuteQueryPhase(SearchService.java:335) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService.executeQueryPhase(SearchService.java:360) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService.lambda$executeQueryPhase$1(SearchService.java:340) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.action.ActionListener.lambda$map$2(ActionListener.java:145) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.action.ActionListener$1.onResponse(ActionListener.java:62) [elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService$2.doRun(SearchService.java:1052) [elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.AbstractRunnable.run(AbstractRunnable.java:37) [elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.TimedRunnable.doRun(TimedRunnable.java:44) [elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ContextPreservingAbstractRunnable.doRun(ThreadContext.java:758) [elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.AbstractRunnable.run(AbstractRunnable.java:37) [elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128) [?:?]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628) [?:?]
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:835) [?:?]
Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException
        at org.elasticsearch.search.internal.ContextIndexSearcher$1.scorer(ContextIndexSearcher.java:156) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.security.authz.accesscontrol.SecurityIndexSearcherWrapper$IndexSearcherWrapper.search(SecurityIndexSearcherWrapper.java:164) ~[?:?]
        at org.apache.lucene.search.XIndexSearcher.search(XIndexSearcher.java:44) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:8.0.0 2ae4746365c1ee72a0047ced7610b2096e438979 - jimczi - 2019-03-08 11:58:55]
        at org.elasticsearch.search.internal.ContextIndexSearcher.search(ContextIndexSearcher.java:177) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher.search(IndexSearcher.java:443) ~[lucene-core-8.0.0.jar:8.0.0 2ae4746365c1ee72a0047ced7610b2096e438979 - jimczi - 2019-03-08 11:58:55]
        at org.elasticsearch.search.query.QueryPhase.execute(QueryPhase.java:271) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.search.query.QueryPhase.execute(QueryPhase.java:114) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService.loadOrExecuteQueryPhase(SearchService.java:335) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService.executeQueryPhase(SearchService.java:360) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService.lambda$executeQueryPhase$1(SearchService.java:340) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.action.ActionListener.lambda$map$2(ActionListener.java:145) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.action.ActionListener$1.onResponse(ActionListener.java:62) [elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService$2.doRun(SearchService.java:1052) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.AbstractRunnable.run(AbstractRunnable.java:37) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.TimedRunnable.doRun(TimedRunnable.java:44) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ContextPreservingAbstractRunnable.doRun(ThreadContext.java:758) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.AbstractRunnable.run(AbstractRunnable.java:37) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128) ~[?:?]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628) ~[?:?]
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:835) ~[?:?]

Looks like you are hitting https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/43668 that was fixed in 7.2.1 and 7.3

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Can you recommend any workaround around this issue or how to not match with a sparse role query?

Is there something that prevents you from upgrading to 7.2.1 or 7.3 ?

As far as I know

  • We need to ingest all the data again once we upgrade the version.
  • We need to enable X-Pack (SSO, SSL certificates , etc. )in there and
  • Many Kibana Dashboards we need to export/import

Is there anyway we can upgrade from 7.2.0 to 7.2.1 without redoing the above steps?

No you don't. See Rolling upgrade | Elasticsearch Guide [8.11] | Elastic

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Thanks Ikakavas, Upgrading the ES from 7.2.0 to 7.3.2 resolved the issue.

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