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CVE-2024-23444

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-311 Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data
Publication date:
31/07/2024
Last modified:
04/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.90 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): High
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x
4.90
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 7.0.0 (including) 7.17.23 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 8.0.0 (including) 8.13.0 (excluding)

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