CVE-2014-6439

Red Hat statement

This issue affects the versions of elasticsearch as shipped with Red Hat Satellite 6.x and Subscription Asset Manager 1.x. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

Red Hat mitigation

As provided at http://www.elasticsearch.org/community/security/, Users should either set "http.cors.enabled" to false, or set "http.cors.allow-origin" to the value of the server that should be allowed access, such as localhost or a server hosting Kibana. Disabling CORS entirely with the former setting is more secure, but may not be suitable for all use cases. For Satellite 6.x and Sam 1.x you can simply firewall elasticsearch to trusted users only (e.g. root, katello, foreman). For instructions on this please see: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Satellite/6.0/html-single/Installation_Guide/index.html#sect-Red_Hat_Satellite-Installation_Guide-Red_Hat_Satellite_Installation-Configuring_Red_Hat_Satellite_Manually