GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-5v8f-xx9m-wj44 Elasticsearch stores private key on disk unencrypted

MEDIUM Published 2024-07-31 Modified 2025-04-07 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2024-23444
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-311
Reviewed
2024-07-31

Affected packages

• Maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch: >= 8.0.0-alpha1, < 8.13.0 → fixed in 8.13.0 • Maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch: < 7.17.23 → fixed in 7.17.23

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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2024-23444 It was discovered by Elastic engineering that when elasticsearch-certutil CLI tool is used with the csr option in order to create a new… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-311 Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data weakness

References