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SCA: security update for org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (GHSA-mjpc-qx7h-r8c9)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432550

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - X-Pack Machine Learning versions before 6.2.4 and 5.6.9 had a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. If
 an attacker is able to inject data into an index that has a ML job running against it, then when another
 user views the results of the ML job it could allow the attacker to obtain sensitive information from or
 perform destructive actions on behalf of that other ML user. (CVE-2018-3824)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mjpc-qx7h-r8c9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 432550

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/8/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-3824

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/17/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-3824

cwe: CWE-79