CVE-2018-3826

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2018-3826 · Published 19/09/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-3826 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting elasticsearch (elastic).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.69%, higher than 52.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
elasticsearch elastic	`= 6.0.0≥ 6.0.0, ≤ 6.2.4`	No fix yet

Description

In Elasticsearch versions 6.0.0-beta1 to 6.2.4 a disclosure flaw was found in the _snapshot API. When the access_key and security_key parameters are set using the _snapshot API they can be exposed as plain text by users able to query the _snapshot API.

References

discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-6-3-0-and-5-6-10-security-update/135777 · Vendor Advisory
elastic.co/community/security · Vendor Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

elasticsearch

elastic

= 6.0.0≥ 6.0.0, ≤ 6.2.4

No fix yet

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