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CVE-2017-12195

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-07-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

A flaw was found in all Openshift Enterprise versions using the openshift elasticsearch plugin. An attacker with knowledge of the given name used to authenticate and access Elasticsearch can later access it without the token, bypassing authentication. This attack also requires that the Elasticsearch be configured with an external route, and the data accessed is limited to the indices.

Affected products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18: 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3188
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3389
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12195
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3188
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3389
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12195

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