CVE-2024-23444

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

Received
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Products

Elasticsearch

Source

bressers@elastic.co

Tags

CVE-2024-23444 details

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

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.

CVSS Score

1 2 3 4.9 5 6 7 8 9 10

Weakness

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

CVSS Data

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

4.9

Exploitability Score

1.2

Impact Score

3.6

Base Severity

MEDIUM

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