Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)
CVE-2020-7010
Summary
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.
- LOW
- NETWORK
- NONE
- UNCHANGED
- NONE
- NONE
- HIGH
- NONE
CWE-335 - Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)
The software uses a Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) but does not correctly manage seeds.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published