CVE-2024-23444
Elasticsearch stores private key on disk unencrypted
4.9
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.5%
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.
How to fix CVE-2024-23444
To remediate CVE-2024-23444, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 7.17.23 or later
- —upgrade to 8.13.0 or later
Is CVE-2024-23444 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- >= 7.0.0, < 7.17.23, >= 8.0.0, < 8.13.0
- >= 8.0.0-alpha1, < 8.13.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM4.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |