Vigil@nce - Elasticsearch: Cross Site Scripting via X-Pack Machine Learning
June 2018 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Scripting via X-Pack Machine
Learning of Elasticsearch, in order to run JavaScript code in the
context of the web site.
Impacted products: Elasticsearch.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 18/04/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Elasticsearch product offers a web service.
However, it does not filter received data via X-Pack Machine
Learning before inserting them in generated HTML documents.
An attacker can therefore trigger a Cross Site Scripting via
X-Pack Machine Learning of Elasticsearch, in order to run
JavaScript code in the context of the web site.
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