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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-17247

Elasticsearch Security versions 6.5.0 and 6.5.1 contain an XXE flaw in Machine Learning's find_file_structure API. If a policy allowing external network access has been added to Elasticsearch's Java Security Manager then an attacker could send a specially crafted request capable of leaking content of local files on the Elasticsearch node. This could allow a user to access information that they should not have access to.

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1 Nov 2026, 06:52 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2018-17247

core-osv · Original source

Published 20 Dec 2018, 22:29 UTC

Elasticsearch Security versions 6.5.0 and 6.5.1 contain an XXE flaw in Machine Learning's find_file_structure API. If a policy allowing external network access has been added to Elasticsearch's Java Security Manager then an attacker could send a specially crafted request capable of leaking content of local files on the Elasticsearch node. This could allow a user to access information that they should not have access to.

osv:CVE-2018-17247
Complete source record
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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  "published_at": "2018-12-20T22:29:00.427+00:00"
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