MAL-2025-20349 Malicious code in fed.m-xpack (npm)

The package fed.m-xpack was found to contain malicious code...

SUSE CVE-2017-8438

Elastic X-Pack Security versions 5.0.0 to 5.4.0 contain a privilege escalation bug in the runas functionality. This bug prevents transitioning into the specified user specified in a runas request. If a role has been created using a template that contains the user properties, the behavior of runas...

Chinese Hackers Target Taiwanese Financial Institutions with a new Stealthy Backdoor

A Chinese advanced persistent threat APT group has been targeting Taiwanese financial institutions as part of a "persistent campaign" that lasted for at least 18 months. The intrusions, whose primary intent was espionage, resulted in the deployment of a backdoor called xPack, granting the adversa...

CVE-2021-22136

In Kibana versions before 7.12.0 and 6.8.15 a flaw in the session timeout was discovered where the xpack.security.session.idleTimeout setting is not being respected. This was caused by background polling activities unintentionally extending authenticated users sessions, preventing a user session...

Man-in-the-middle (MITM)

xpack is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attack. The vulnerability exists because verification of SSL/TLS certificates are not properly done, allowing a man in the middle attack against the Logstash monitoring data...

CVE-2021-22136

In Kibana versions before 7.12.0 and 6.8.15 a flaw in the session timeout was discovered where the xpack.security.session.idleTimeout setting is not being respected. This was caused by background polling activities unintentionally extending authenticated users sessions, preventing a user session...

The vulnerability of the xpack.security.audit.enabled component of the Kibana data visualization service allows a perpetrator to execute arbitrary commands.

The vulnerability of the xpack.security.audit.enabled component of the Kibana data visualization service is related to insufficient validation of arguments passed to commands. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary commands remotely...

PT-2019-4538

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Windows affected versions not specified Description An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Win32k component fails to properly handle objects in memory. This vulnerability was exploited by the APT Antlion group in a...

Privilege Escalation

elasticsearch is vulnerable to privilege escalation. An attacker is able to gain additional permissions against a restricted index due to failure to perform certain permission checks when xpack.security.dlsfls.enabled is configured with false value in the elasticsearch.yml file...

CVE-2019-7611

A permission issue was found in Elasticsearch versions before 5.6.15 and 6.6.1 when Field Level Security and Document Level Security are disabled and the aliases, shrink, or split endpoints are used . If the elasticsearch.yml file has xpack.security.dlsfls.enabled set to false, certain permission...

Arbitrary Code Execution

kibana is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability exists due to a flaw which allows an attacker to send a malicious request to execute Javascript code since xpack.security.audit.enabled in the kibana.yml is set to true by default, leading to arbitrary code execution on the host...

CVE-2019-7611

CVE-2019-7611 is documented in IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact advisories as a vulnerability in Elasticsearch shipped with Netcool Impact. The issue arises when Field/Document Level Security is disabled and certain endpoints (_aliases, _shrink, _split) are used, allowing an attacker to bypass permissio...

[ASA-201902-27] elasticsearch: privilege escalation

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201902-27 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2019-02-25 CVE-ID : CVE-2019-7611 Package : elasticsearch Type : privilege escalation Remote : Yes Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-912 Summary ======= The package elasticsearch...

Elastic Stack 6.2.4 and 5.6.9 security update

X-Pack Machine Learning XSS vulnerability ESA-2018-06 X-Pack Machine Learning versions before 6.2.4 and 5.6.9 had a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability. Users with manageml permissions could create jobs containing malicious data as part of their configuration that could allow the attacker to...

CVE-2018-3822

X-Pack Security versions 6.2.0, 6.2.1, and 6.2.2 are vulnerable to a user impersonation attack via incorrect XML canonicalization and DOM traversal. An attacker might have been able to impersonate a legitimate user if the SAML Identity Provider allows for self registration with arbitrary...

CVE-2017-8441

Elastic X-Pack Security versions prior to 5.4.1 and 5.3.3 did not always correctly apply Document Level Security to index aliases. This bug could allow a user with restricted permissions to view data they should not have access to when performing certain operations against an index alias...