From 02f57b1e299977a9eccf9bb793a7cc567d0fd2af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Roberts Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 11:35:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] [DOCS] Add warning about bypassing ML PUT APIs (#38605) Now that ML configurations are stored in the .ml-config index rather than in cluster state there is a possibility that some users may try to add configurations directly to the index. Allowing this creates a variety of problems including possible data exflitration attacks (depending on how security is set up), so this commit adds warnings against allowing writes to the .ml-config index other than via the ML APIs. Backport of #38509 --- docs/reference/ml/apis/put-datafeed.asciidoc | 5 +++++ docs/reference/ml/apis/put-job.asciidoc | 8 +++++++- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/reference/ml/apis/put-datafeed.asciidoc b/docs/reference/ml/apis/put-datafeed.asciidoc index 18c611e97ca..05e02ce3615 100644 --- a/docs/reference/ml/apis/put-datafeed.asciidoc +++ b/docs/reference/ml/apis/put-datafeed.asciidoc @@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ Instantiates a {dfeed}. You must create a job before you create a {dfeed}. You can associate only one {dfeed} to each job. +IMPORTANT: You must use {kib} or this API to create a {dfeed}. Do not put a {dfeed} + directly to the `.ml-config` index using the Elasticsearch index API. + If {es} {security-features} are enabled, do not give users `write` + privileges on the `.ml-config` index. + ==== Path Parameters diff --git a/docs/reference/ml/apis/put-job.asciidoc b/docs/reference/ml/apis/put-job.asciidoc index 4abeebee3e4..e3d80c276dc 100644 --- a/docs/reference/ml/apis/put-job.asciidoc +++ b/docs/reference/ml/apis/put-job.asciidoc @@ -12,7 +12,13 @@ Instantiates a job. `PUT _ml/anomaly_detectors/` -//===== Description +===== Description + +IMPORTANT: You must use {kib} or this API to create a {ml} job. Do not put a job + directly to the `.ml-config` index using the Elasticsearch index API. + If {es} {security-features} are enabled, do not give users `write` + privileges on the `.ml-config` index. + ==== Path Parameters