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Fencer Intel
medium 4.3

CVE-2014-6439 json

Cross-site scripting in Elasticsearch

published 2014-10-10 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-8699-m855-cwqf , EUVD-2022-3121

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.0%
EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 81%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch 1.4.0.Beta1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-6439 updated cvss 1.9

Elasticsearch: CSRF via insecure CORS default configuration

  • Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager elasticsearch
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Satellite 6 Discovery
    under investigation

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.02% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch
<1.4.0.Beta1
1.4.0.Beta1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.