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CVE-2020-7010
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
- 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: 2020-06-03 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-335
Description
Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) versions prior to 1.1.0 generate passwords using a weak random number generator. If an attacker is able to determine when the current Elastic Stack cluster was deployed they may be able to more easily brute force the Elasticsearch credentials generated by ECK.
Affected products
- Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes: before 1.1.0 — fixed in 1.1.0
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes 1.1.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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