CVE-2024-23444
Elasticsearch elasticsearch-certutil csr fails to encrypt private key
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 4.9 Medium
- Published
- Jul 31, 2024
- Updated
- Apr 4, 2025
- Reserved
- Jan 16, 2024
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 4.9 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N | elastic |
Weaknesses
- CWE-311 Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
ElasticsearchElastic |
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References
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