Medium severity · published Sep 19, 2018
CVE-2018-3829
In Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) versions prior to 1.1.4 it was discovered that a user could scale out allocators on new hosts with an invalid roles token
5.3
CVSS
0.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) versions prior to 1.1.4 it was discovered that a user could scale out allocators on new hosts with an invalid roles token. An attacker with access to the previous runner ID and IP address of the coordinator-host could add a allocator to an existing ECE install to gain access to other clusters data.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.9% · higher than 59% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
EC
Elastic Cloud Enterprise · Elastic
before 1.1.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-3829
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-3829
Vendor Advisory
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-enterprise-1-1-4-security-update/135778
Vendor Advisory
https://www.elastic.co/community/security
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