What is CVE-2018-3831?

CVE-2018-3831 is a high-severity vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2018-09-19.

How severe is CVE-2018-3831?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Elastic Elasticsearch

CVE-2018-3831

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 configuratio…

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.020 (78.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Elastic Elasticsearch — versions before 5.6.12 and 6.4.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

security@elastic.co (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory)
security@elastic.co (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-3831?: CVE-2018-3831 is a high-severity vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2018-09-19.
How severe is CVE-2018-3831?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.