Vulnerability CVE-2018-3826
Published: 2018-09-19

Description:
In Elasticsearch versions 6.0.0-beta1 to 6.2.4 a disclosure flaw was found in the _snapshot API. When the access_key and security_key parameters are set using the _snapshot API they can be exposed as plain text by users able to query the _snapshot API.

Type:

CWE-311

 (Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4/10
2.9/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Elastic -> Elasticsearch 

 References:
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-6-3-0-and-5-6-10-security-update/135777
https://www.elastic.co/community/security
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