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CVE-2020-7010
Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) versions prior to 1.1.0 generate passwords using a weak random number generator. If an attacker is able…
High7.5EPSS 1.4%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- elastic
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 27% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
Elastic · Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes
- affected before 1.1.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8sGHSA-vfp4-xx6m-7vf6 (opens in a new tab)
References (1)
- https://www.elastic.co/community/security/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-vfp4-xx6m-7vf6 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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