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    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. 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.

    Published:Sep 19, 2018
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Sep 19, 2018
    EPSS Score:0.0022
    CVSS Score:5.3

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Elastic
    Product
    Elastic Cloud Enterprise

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-1 Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs
    CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting
    CAPEC-127 Directory Indexing
    CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
    CAPEC-17 Using Malicious Files
    CAPEC-21 Exploitation of Trusted Identifiers
    CAPEC-22 Exploiting Trust in Client
    CAPEC-39 Manipulating Opaque Client-based Data Tokens
    CAPEC-402 Bypassing ATA Password Security
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-459 Creating a Rogue Certification Authority Certificate
    CAPEC-461 Web Services API Signature Forgery Leveraging Hash Function Extension Weakness
    CAPEC-473 Signature Spoof
    CAPEC-476 Signature Spoofing by Misrepresentation
    CAPEC-5 Blue Boxing
    CAPEC-51 Poison Web Service Registry
    CAPEC-59 Session Credential Falsification through Prediction
    CAPEC-60 Reusing Session IDs (aka Session Replay)
    CAPEC-647 Collect Data from Registries
    CAPEC-667 Bluetooth Impersonation AttackS (BIAS)
    CAPEC-668 Key Negotiation of Bluetooth Attack (KNOB)
    CAPEC-76 Manipulating Web Input to File System Calls
    CAPEC-77 Manipulating User-Controlled Variables
    CAPEC-87 Forceful Browsing
    CAPEC-94 Adversary in the Middle (AiTM)

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High