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.
Scores
CVSS v3
4.9
EPSS
0.0143
EPSS Percentile
80.7%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-311
Status
published
Products (2)
elastic/elasticsearch
7.0.0 - 7.17.23
org.elasticsearch/elasticsearch
8.0.0-alpha1 - 8.13.0Maven
Published
Jul 31, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026