CVE-2017-8444 — Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Info in Cloud Enterprise

CWE-319 — Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Info3 documents3 sources
Severity
5.9MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 68.78%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Elastic Cloud EnterpriseElasticsearch Cloud Enterprise
Timeline
PublishedSep 29
Latest updateMay 13

Description

The client-forwarder in Elastic Cloud Enterprise versions prior to 1.0.2 do not properly encrypt traffic to ZooKeeper. If an attacker is able to man in the middle (MITM) the traffic between the client-forwarder and ZooKeeper they could potentially obtain sensitive data.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 2.2 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDelasticsearch/cloud_enterprise1.0.0, 1.0.1+1
▶CVEListV5elastic/elastic_cloud_enterprise1.0.0 and 1.0.1

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-7p73-4949-hjv7: The client-forwarder in Elastic Cloud Enterprise versions prior to 1↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2017-8444: The client-forwarder in Elastic Cloud Enterprise versions prior to 1↗2017-09-28
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CVE-2017-8444 — Elastic Cloud Enterprise vulnerability | cvebase