X-Pack Security TLS Trust Manager up to 5.5.1 Certificate certificate validation
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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in X-Pack Security TLS Trust Manager up to 5.5.1. This affects some unknown functionality of the component Certificate Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a certificate validation vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-295. The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
An error was found in the X-Pack Security TLS trust manager for versions 5.0.0 to 5.5.1. If reloading the trust material fails the trust manager will be replaced with an instance that trusts all certificates. This could allow any node using any certificate to join a cluster. The proper behavior in this instance is for the TLS trust manager to deny all certificates.
The bug was discovered 08/17/2017. The weakness was disclosed 08/18/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared at elastic.co. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2017-8445 since 05/02/2017. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1587.003 for this issue.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 112041 (Elasticsearch ESA-2017-15), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses and running in the context r.
Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (112041). The entries 75175, 102624, 102623 and 102625 are pretty similar.
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CPE 2.3
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.4VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.3
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Class: Certificate validationCWE: CWE-295 / CWE-287
ATT&CK: T1587.003
Local: Yes
Remote: No
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Nessus ID: 112041
Nessus Name: Elasticsearch ESA-2017-15
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OpenVAS ID: 103369
OpenVAS Name: Elasticsearch Kibana X-Pack CVE-2017-8445 TLS Trust Manager Bypass Vulnerability (Windows)
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Timeline
05/02/2017 🔍08/17/2017 🔍
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Sources
Advisory: elastic.coStatus: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2017-8445 (🔍)
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Entry
Created: 08/19/2017 09:02Updated: 11/09/2019 08:43
Changes: 08/19/2017 09:02 (62), 11/09/2019 08:43 (10)
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