CVE-2024-23444 (GCVE-0-2024-23444)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-31 17:26 – Updated: 2025-04-04 23:03
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Summary
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 ?
4.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-311 - Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Elastic Elasticsearch Affected: 7.x , < 7.17.23 (custom)
Affected: 8.x , < 8.13.0 (custom)
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