Elasticsearch Unauthenticated Access Detection
elasticsearch-unauthenticated is a critical severity check in the
databases category, written in rust.
Its source is templates/databases/elasticsearch/elasticsearch_unauthenticated.rs in
cert-x-gen-templates.
What it checks
Section titled “What it checks”Detects Elasticsearch clusters accessible without authentication, exposing indexed data
Header
Section titled “Header”| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Id | elasticsearch-unauthenticated |
| Severity | critical |
| Language | rust |
| Category | databases |
| Author | CERT-X-GEN Security Team |
| Template version | not recorded |
| Confidence | 95 |
| CVSS | 9.8 |
| Weakness | CWE-306 |
| Tags | elasticsearch, search-engine, authentication, nosql, data-exposure, cwe-306 |
| Target kind | not recorded |
| Oracle | not recorded |
References
Section titled “References”Declared in the header. cxg parses @references and then discards it, and
nothing at scan time reads it, so this is the only place the links a
template cites are surfaced.
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/306.html
- https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-minimal-setup.html
Run it
Section titled “Run it”To see what the copy on your machine says about itself, and to confirm it is installed at all:
cxg template info elasticsearch-unauthenticatedThe id it prints is the one to pass anywhere a template is selected. See
cxg template for the rest of
the subcommand, Scan a target for running
a scan, and
A match is not a finding for how
to read what comes back.
Related
Section titled “Related”- Template catalog is the whole corpus.
- databases is the rest of this category.
- Templates by weakness class groups checks by the defect they look for.
- Contribute a template is the route from a check you needed and could not find to a merged one.