CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-7010

7.5 HIGH Published 2020-06-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-06-03
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-335

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.

Affected configurations

• elastic elastic cloud on kubernetes (< 1.1.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

Referenced by CWE · observed example (3)

  • CWE-330 Use of Insufficiently Random Values weakness
  • CWE-335 Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) weakness
  • CWE-337 Predictable Seed in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) weakness

References