CVE-2018-3823

X-Pack Machine Learning versions before 6.2.4 and 5.6.9 had a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. Users with manage_ml permissions could create jobs containing malicious data as part of their configuration that could allow the attacker to obtain sensitive information from or perform destructive actions on behalf of other ML users viewing the results of the jobs.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.4 Medium

Status

Modified - security@elastic.co

Published

2018-09-19

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected products

• Elasticsearch X-pack (Elastic)
• Elasticsearch X-pack Machine Learning (Elastic)
• Kibana X-pack (Elastic)
• Logstash X-pack (Elastic)

References

• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-6-2-4-and-5-6-9-security-update/128422
• https://www.elastic.co/community/security