CVE-2023-31417

Elasticsearch generally filters out sensitive information and credentials before logging to the audit log. It was found that this filtering was not applied when requests to Elasticsearch use certain deprecated URIs for APIs. The impact of this flaw is that sensitive information such as passwords and tokens might be printed in cleartext in Elasticsearch audit logs. Note that audit logging is disabled by default and needs to be explicitly enabled and even when audit logging is enabled, request bodies that could contain sensitive information are not printed to the audit log unless explicitly configured.

CVSS v3 4.1 MEDIUM

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CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 0.5 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity HIGH

Privileges Required HIGH

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-9-2-and-7-17-13-security-update/342479	Vendor Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231130-0006/	Third Party Advisory
https://www.elastic.co/community/security	Vendor Advisory
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-9-2-and-7-17-13-security-update/342479	Vendor Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231130-0006/	Third Party Advisory
https://www.elastic.co/community/security	Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch::::::::

History

13 Feb 2025, 17:16

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Summary	(en) Elasticsearch generally filters out sensitive information and credentials before logging to the audit log. It was found that this filtering was not applied when requests to Elasticsearch use certain deprecated URIs for APIs. The impact of this flaw is that sensitive information such as passwords and tokens might be printed in cleartext in Elasticsearch audit logs. Note that audit logging is disabled by default and needs to be explicitly enabled and even when audit logging is enabled, request bodies that could contain sensitive information are not printed to the audit log unless explicitly configured.	(en) Elasticsearch generally filters out sensitive information and credentials before logging to the audit log. It was found that this filtering was not applied when requests to Elasticsearch use certain deprecated URIs for APIs. The impact of this flaw is that sensitive information such as passwords and tokens might be printed in cleartext in Elasticsearch audit logs. Note that audit logging is disabled by default and needs to be explicitly enabled and even when audit logging is enabled, request bodies that could contain sensitive information are not printed to the audit log unless explicitly configured.

21 Nov 2024, 08:01

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References	~~() https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-9-2-and-7-17-13-security-update/342479 - Vendor Advisory~~	() https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-9-2-and-7-17-13-security-update/342479 - Vendor Advisory
References	~~() https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231130-0006/ - Third Party Advisory~~	() https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231130-0006/ - Third Party Advisory
References	~~() https://www.elastic.co/community/security - Vendor Advisory~~	() https://www.elastic.co/community/security - Vendor Advisory
CVSS	v2 : ~~unknown~~ v3 : ~~4.4~~	v2 : unknown v3 : 4.1

03 Jan 2024, 19:02

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CVSS	v2 : ~~unknown~~ v3 : ~~7.5~~	v2 : unknown v3 : 4.4
References	~~() https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231130-0006/ -~~	() https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231130-0006/ - Third Party Advisory

30 Nov 2023, 22:15

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2023-10-26 18:15

Updated : 2025-02-13 17:16

NVD link : CVE-2023-31417

Mitre link : CVE-2023-31417

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-31417

JSON object : View

Products Affected

elastic

elasticsearch

CWE

CWE-532

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

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