3: authentication bypass for elasticsearch with external routes

An attacker with knowledge of the given name used to authenticate and access Elasticsearch can later access it without the token, bypassing authentication. This attack also requires that the Elasticsearch be configured with an external route, and the data accessed is limited to the indices...

CVE-2017-12195

An attacker with knowledge of the given name used to authenticate and access Elasticsearch can later access it without the token, bypassing authentication. This attack also requires that the Elasticsearch be configured with an external route, and the data accessed is limited to the indices...

WS-2017-3740

Elasticsearch before v7.0.0-alpha1 has a weak default of giving internal XPack user write permissions on the repository files and images...

Data Pours from Cloud—And ‘The Enemy is Us’

Accenture, Verizon, Dow Jones and Deep Root Analytics are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the millions of private records and sensitive enterprise data exposed on cloud backends this year. And the problem is getting worse not better. “The enemy is us,” said Chris Vickery, director of...

Elastic Kibana X-Pack 'CVE-2017-8442' Information Disclosure Vulnerability - Windows

Elastic Kibana with X-Pack is prone to an information disclosure vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE =...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12629

Remote code execution occurs in Apache Solr before 7.1 with Apache Lucene before 7.1 by exploiting XXE in conjunction with use of a Config API add-listener command to reach the RunExecutableListener class. Elasticsearch, although it uses Lucene, is NOT vulnerable to this. Note that the XML extern...

Xxe

Remote code execution occurs in Apache Solr before 7.1 with Apache Lucene before 7.1 by exploiting XXE in conjunction with use of a Config API add-listener command to reach the RunExecutableListener class. Elasticsearch, although it uses Lucene, is NOT vulnerable to this. Note that the XML extern...

CVE-2017-12629

Remote code execution occurs in Apache Solr before 7.1 with Apache Lucene before 7.1 by exploiting XXE in conjunction with use of a Config API add-listener command to reach the RunExecutableListener class. Elasticsearch, although it uses Lucene, is NOT vulnerable to this. Note that the XML extern...

CVE-2017-12629

Remote code execution occurs in Apache Solr before 7.1 with Apache Lucene before 7.1 by exploiting XXE in conjunction with use of a Config API add-listener command to reach the RunExecutableListener class. Elasticsearch, although it uses Lucene, is NOT vulnerable to this. Note that the XML extern...

CVE-2017-12629

Remote code execution occurs in Apache Solr before 7.1 with Apache Lucene before 7.1 by exploiting XXE in conjunction with use of a Config API add-listener command to reach the RunExecutableListener class. Elasticsearch, although it uses Lucene, is NOT vulnerable to this. Note that the XML extern...

NFL Players and Agents Targeted in Database Extortion Attempt

A misconfigured database containing records belonging to 1,133 National Football League players and their agents was exposed via an unsecured Elasticsearch server. The database belongs to the NFL Players Association and includes the home address, phone numbers and IP addresses for hundreds of...

Elastic Elasticsearch ThrowableObjectInputStream Insecure Deserialization (CVE-2015-5377)

An insecure deserialization vulnerability exists in Elastic Elasticsearch. This vulnerability is due to the deserialization of untrusted ThrowableObjectInputStream data.A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted serialized data to the target application...

Elasticsearch X-Pack Security Unauthorized Modification Vulnerability

Elasticsearch X-Pack is an extension of Elastic Stack log analysis system from the Dutch company Elasticsearch.Security is one of the security components. A security vulnerability exists in Elasticsearch X-Pack Security versions 5.3.0 through 5.5.2. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to...

A week in security (September 11 – September 17)

Last week, we dug into phishing campaigns done via Linkedin accounts, remediation versus prevention, issues with smart syringe pumps, and advised you to go patch against a Word 0day. We had some tips regarding identity theft protection, explored crowdsourced fraud, and explained YARA rules...

4,000 ElasticSearch servers found hosting PoS malware

By Waqas Kromtech’s security researchers have identified two point-of-sale POS malware strains This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 4,000 ElasticSearch servers found hosting PoS malware...

Thousands of Elasticsearch Servers Hijacked to Host PoS Malware

Thousands of insecure Elasticsearch servers are hosting point-of-sale malware, according to an analysis by Kromtech Security Center. In total, researchers found 15,000 insecure Elasticsearch servers with 27 percent 4,000 hosting the PoS malware strains Alina and JackPoS. “The absence of...

Pornhub: Unsecured Elasticsearch Instance

The researcher has found an insecure Elasticsearch instance accessible to the public. A publicly accessible server running Elasticsearch instance was identified, due to a firewall misconfiguration. The instance was only intermittently accessible because of round robin ordering. The instance...

Unspecified vulnerability in Elasticsearch X-Pack Security TLS trust manager

Elasticsearch X-Pack is an extension of Elastic Stack log analysis system from the Dutch company Elasticsearch.Security TLS trust manager is one of the security certificate managers. A security vulnerability exists in Elasticsearch X-Pack Security TLS trust manager versions 5.0.0 through 5.5.1. N...

Elasticsearch X-Pack and Reporting Plugin Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Elasticsearch X-Pack is a Dutch Elasticsearch company Elastic Stack log analysis system extension. reporting is a plug-in application in which it can also be used independently. A security vulnerability exists in the Reporting feature in Elasticsearch X-Pack versions prior to 5.5.2 and Reporting...

PT-2017-18337

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Elasticsearch X-Pack versions 5.0.0 through 5.5.1 Description An error in the X-Pack Security TLS trust manager could allow any node using any certificate to join a cluster if reloading the trust material fails. The trust manager will be...