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CVE-2018-3826

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-09-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

In Elasticsearch versions 6.0.0-beta1 to 6.2.4 a disclosure flaw was found in the _snapshot API. When the access_key and security_key parameters are set using the _snapshot API they can be exposed as plain text by users able to query the _snapshot API.

Affected products

• Elasticsearch: from 6.0.0 through 6.2.4; 6.0.0-beta1

References

• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-6-3-0-and-5-6-10-security-update/135777
• https://www.elastic.co/community/security
• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-6-3-0-and-5-6-10-security-update/135777
• https://www.elastic.co/community/security

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