CVE-2025-35434 describes a critical vulnerability in CISA Thorium where it fails to validate TLS certificates when connecting to Elasticsearch, affecting all versions prior to 1.1.2. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the Thorium cluster to impersonate the Elasticsearch service, leading to potential compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL) and a FAUCET Risk Score of 95/100, the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or inclusion in CISA's KEV catalog, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness and potential for future exploitation.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisa:thorium:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.0.0, < 1.1.2CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:cisa:thorium:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 4.0
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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.