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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Elasticsearch

GHSA-r9fv-qpm9-rj4g · CVE-2018-3831

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Description

Elasticsearch Alerting and Monitoring in versions before 6.4.1 or 5.6.12 have an information disclosure issue when secrets are configured via the API. The Elasticsearch _cluster/settings API, when queried, could leak sensitive configuration information such as passwords, tokens, or usernames. This could allow an authenticated Elasticsearch user to improperly view these details.

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