Description
Improper Authentication in Elasticsearch PKI realm can lead to user impersonation via specially crafted client certificates. A malicious actor would need to have such a crafted client certificate signed by a legitimate, trusted Certificate Authority.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Attack Vector
- network
- Complexity
- high
- Privileges
- low
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- high
- Integrity
- high
- Availability
- none
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287NVD-CWE-noinfo
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- ELASTIC
- Published
- 12/15/2025
- Last Modified
- 12/18/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
elastic : elasticsearchelastic : elasticsearchelastic : elasticsearchelastic : elasticsearch
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