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Vigil@nce - Elasticsearch: external XML entity injection via find_file_structure API
February 2019 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer/Computer-vulnerability-database-and-alert
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Elasticsearch.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: data reading, denial of service on service.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 06/12/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can transmit malicious XML data via
find_file_structure API to Elasticsearch, in order to read a file,
scan sites, or trigger a denial of service.
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