Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes - CVE-2023-31416
Published: September 26, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU81124
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-31416
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to secret token configuration is never applied when using ECK with APM Server. A remote non-authenticated attacker can send anonymous requests to an APM Server.
Affected software
Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes
How to mitigate CVE-2023-31416
Install updates from vendor's website.
Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes - update to 2.8