VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-7010

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.44%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-06-03
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Description

Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) versions prior to 1.1.0 generate passwords using a weak random number generator. If an attacker is able to determine when the current Elastic Stack cluster was deployed they may be able to more easily brute force the Elasticsearch credentials generated by ECK.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-335: Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)

Primary references