What is CVE-2017-8444?

CVE-2017-8444 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Cloud Enterprise, classified under Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2017-09-29.

How severe is CVE-2017-8444?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Elastic Cloud Enterprise

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 pot…

EPSS: 0.005 (39.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Elastic Cloud Enterprise — versions 1.0.0 and 1.0.1
Elasticsearch Cloud_enterprise — versions 1.0.0, 1.0.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-319 — Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

References

security@elastic.co (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-8444?: CVE-2017-8444 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Cloud Enterprise, classified under Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2017-09-29.
How severe is CVE-2017-8444?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.