CVE-2024-23444

July 31, 2024, 6:15 p.m.

4.9
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.

Product(s) Impacted

Product Versions
Elasticsearch

Weaknesses

CWE-311
Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data
The product does not encrypt sensitive or critical information before storage or transmission.

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-13-0-7-17-23-security-update-esa-2024-12/364157

Tags

CWE-311
bressers@elastic.co
2024-07-31
CVE-2024-23444

CVSS Score

4.9 / 10

CVSS Data

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: HIGH
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: NONE
    • View Vector String

    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Date

  • Published: July 31, 2024, 6:15 p.m.
  • Last Modified: July 31, 2024, 6:15 p.m.

Status : Received

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

bressers@elastic.co

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