CVE-2025-35434 (GCVE-0-2025-35434)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-17 16:53 – Updated: 2025-09-30 16:32
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
CISA Thorium does not validate TLS connections to Elasticsearch
Summary
CISA Thorium does not validate TLS certificates when connecting to Elasticsearch. An unauthenticated attacker with access to a Thorium cluster could impersonate the Elasticsearch service. Fixed in 1.1.2.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · cisa-cg (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-09-02 14:36 UTC
CWE
- CWE-295 - Improper Certificate Validation
References
Impacted products
Date Public
2025-08-29 00:00
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