Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-8444

Title: Elasticsearch Cloud Enterprise Cryptographic Failures

Information Disclosure

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-8444.

CWE Category CWE-319

Published Date Sep 29, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.9 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.51%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-8444: The client-forwarder in Elastic Cloud Enterprise versions prior to 1.0.2 do not properly encrypt traffic to ZooKeeper. If an attacker is able to man in the middle (MITM) the traffic between the client-forwarder and ZooKeeper they could potentially obtain sensitive data.

Impacted Vendors

elasticsearch 1

Reference Links

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-enterprise-1-0-2-security-update/100247 https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-enterprise-1-0-2-security-update/100247

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.9

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

HIGH

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns