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CVE-2017-8444

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-09-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-319

Description

The client-forwarder in Elastic Cloud Enterprise versions prior to 1.0.2 do not properly encrypt traffic to ZooKeeper. If an attacker is able to man in the middle (MITM) the traffic between the client-forwarder and ZooKeeper they could potentially obtain sensitive data.

Affected products

• Elasticsearch Cloud Enterprise: 1.0.0, 1.0.1

References

• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-enterprise-1-0-2-security-update/100247
• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-enterprise-1-0-2-security-update/100247

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