CVE-2024-23444

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 v3 4.9 MEDIUM

4.9^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.2 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

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-8-13-0-7-17-23-security-update-esa-2024-12/364157	Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

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

History

04 Feb 2025, 15:16

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time		Elastic elasticsearch Elastic
CPE		cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch::::::::
References	~~() https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-13-0-7-17-23-security-update-esa-2024-12/364157 -~~	() https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-13-0-7-17-23-security-update-esa-2024-12/364157 - Vendor Advisory

01 Aug 2024, 12:42

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Summary		(es) La ingeniería de Elastic descubrió que cuando se utiliza la herramienta CLI elasticsearch-certutil con la opción csr para crear nuevas solicitudes de firma de certificado, la clave privada asociada que se genera se almacena en el disco sin cifrar incluso si se pasa el parámetro --pass en la invocación del comando.

31 Jul 2024, 18:15

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2024-07-31 18:15

Updated : 2025-02-04 15:16

NVD link : CVE-2024-23444

Mitre link : CVE-2024-23444

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-23444

JSON object : View

Products Affected

elastic

elasticsearch

CWE

CWE-311

Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data

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