CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2024-23444
High (7.5) in elastic elasticsearch. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch 7.17.23, 8.13.0.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 10% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-311
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- elastic:elasticsearch
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-5v8f-xx9m-wj44 | Maven | org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch | >=8.0.0-alpha1 <8.13.0 | 8.13.0 |
| GHSA-5v8f-xx9m-wj44 | Maven | org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch | <7.17.23 | 7.17.23 |