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CVE-2014-6439
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the CORS functionality in Elasticsearch before 1.4.0.Beta1 allows remote attackers to inject…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 2.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 19% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the CORS functionality in Elasticsearch before 1.4.0.Beta1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 24 days later
· 24 days later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.elasticsearch:elasticsearchGHSA-8699-m855-cwqf (opens in a new tab)
References
5
- http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/elasticsearch-1-4-0-beta-released/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20141002 Elasticsearch vulnerability CVE-2014-6439 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 70233 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128556/Elasticsearch-1.3.x-CORS-Issue.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.elastic.co/community/security/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-3121 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-8699-m855-cwqf (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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