CVE-2014-6439

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-10-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the CORS functionality in Elasticsearch before 1.4.0.Beta1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Elasticsearch: through 1.3.3

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128556/Elasticsearch-1.3.x-CORS-Issue.html
http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/elasticsearch-1-4-0-beta-released/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/533602/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70233
https://www.elastic.co/community/security/
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128556/Elasticsearch-1.3.x-CORS-Issue.html
http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/elasticsearch-1-4-0-beta-released/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/533602/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70233
https://www.elastic.co/community/security/

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