PT-2014-7220 · Elastic · Elasticsearch

Published 2014-10-10 · Updated 2022-05-14 · CVE-2014-6439

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Elasticsearch versions prior to 1.4.0.Beta1

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists in the CORS functionality, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.4.0.Beta1, update to version 1.4.0.Beta1 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the CORS functionality until a patch is applied.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-6439

GHSA-8699-M855-CWQF

Affected Products

Elasticsearch

References · 11

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-6439 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-6439 · Security Note
• http://elasticsearch.org/blog/elasticsearch-1-4-0-beta-released · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-6439 · Security Note
• https://elastic.co/community/security · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-6439 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-8699-m855-cwqf · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/533602/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/70233 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6439 · Note
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128556/Elasticsearch-1.3.x-CORS-Issue.html · Note