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CVE-2024-23444

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CVE-2024-23444

Published: Jul 31, 2024

Modified: Apr 4, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

4.9

MEDIUM

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.

VendorProductVersions

Elastic

Elasticsearch

affected
7.x - < 7.17.23
affected
8.x - < 8.13.0

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

None

Availability

None

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