CVE-2024-23444

Medium

Description

It was discovered by Elastic engineering that when elasticsearch-certutil CLI tool is used with the csr option in order to create a new Certificate Signing Requests, the associated private key that is generated is stored on disk unencrypted even if the --pass parameter is passed in the command invocation.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.9
Exploit probability—
ProductElasticsearch
PublishedJul 31, 2024
First seenJul 31, 2024
Weakness typeCWE-311CWE-311

How to fix

Update
  • elastic elasticsearch7.17.23, 8.13.0 or later
  • org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch8.13.0, 7.17.23 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
elastic elasticsearch7.0.0 ≤ v < 7.17.23, 8.0.0 ≤ v < 8.13.07.17.23, 8.13.0
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearchMaven8.0.0-alpha1 ≤ v < 8.13.0, v < 7.17.238.13.0, 7.17.23

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CVE-2024-23444 · Elasticsearch · Dark Radar