VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2017-8444
CVSS score5.9 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.57%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-09-29
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Description
The client-forwarder in Elastic Cloud Enterprise versions prior to 1.0.2 do not properly encrypt traffic to ZooKeeper. If an attacker is able to man in the middle (MITM) the traffic between the client-forwarder and ZooKeeper they could potentially obtain sensitive data.
Weakness classification
- CWE-319: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
Primary references
- security@elastic.co — Vendor Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Vendor Advisory