vulnerability

Elastic Elasticsearch: CVE-2018-3826: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Sep 19, 2018
Added
May 13, 2025
Modified
May 28, 2025

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.

Solution

elastic-elasticsearch-upgrade-latest
Title
NEW

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