A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Elastic Cloud Enterprise up to 1.1.3 (Cloud Software). This affects an unknown part of the component Log Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a log file vulnerability (Credentials). CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-532. Information written to log files can be of a sensitive nature and give valuable guidance to an attacker or expose sensitive user information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) versions prior to 1.1.4 contain an information exposure vulnerability. It was discovered that certain exception conditions would result in encryption keys, passwords, and other security sensitive headers being leaked to the allocator logs. An attacker with access to the logging cluster may obtain leaked credentials and perform authenticated actions using these credentials.

The bug was discovered 06/13/2018. The weakness was released 09/19/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared at discuss.elastic.co. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2018-3828 since 01/01/2018. An attack has to be approached locally. A authentication is necessary for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 98 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version 1.1.4 eliminates this vulnerability.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 124278 and 124282.

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