Description
An issue was discovered by Elastic whereby Elastic Agent would log a raw event in its own logs at the WARN or ERROR level if ingesting that event to Elasticsearch failed with any 4xx HTTP status code except 409 or 429. Depending on the nature of the event that Elastic Agent attempted to ingest, this could lead to the insertion of sensitive or private information in the Elastic Agent logs. Elastic has released 8.11.3 and 7.17.16 that prevents this issue by limiting these types of logs to DEBUG level logging, which is disabled by default.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-and-elastic-agent-8-11-3-7-17-16-security-update-esa-2023-30/349180
Scores
CVSS v3
6.8
EPSS
0.0040
EPSS Percentile
60.8%
Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-532
Status
published
Products (1)
elastic/elastic_agent
7.0.0 - 7.17.16
Published
Dec 12, 2023
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026