CVE-2025-35434 (GCVE-0-2025-35434)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-17 16:53
Modified
2025-09-30 16:32
Severity ?
4.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
2.3 (Low) - CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-295 - Improper Certificate Validation
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
CISA Thorium Version: 1.0.0   < 1.1.2
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