CVE-2024-23444

MEDIUM

Elasticsearch 7.0.0-7.17.22 & 8.0.0-alpha1-8.12.4 - Unencrypted Private Key Storage

Title source: llm

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.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Vendor Advisory

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-13-0-7-17-23-security-update-esa-2024-12/364157

Vendor Advisory

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250404-0001/

Scores

CVSS v3 4.9

EPSS 0.0021

EPSS Percentile 10.6%

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