CVE-2020-7010: Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)

February 15, 2022 (updated April 12, 2022)

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.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-vfp4-xx6m-7vf6
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7010
www.elastic.co/community/security/

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