ghsa-5v8f-xx9m-wj44
Vulnerability from github
Published
2024-07-31 18:32
Modified
2024-07-31 20:53
Severity
4.9 (Medium) - CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
6.9 (Medium) - CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
6.9 (Medium) - CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Summary
Elasticsearch stores private key on disk unencrypted
Details
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.
{
"affected": [
{
"package": {
"ecosystem": "Maven",
"name": "org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "8.0.0-alpha1"
},
{
"fixed": "8.13.0"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
]
},
{
"package": {
"ecosystem": "Maven",
"name": "org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "7.17.23"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
]
}
],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2024-23444"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-311"
],
"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2024-07-31T20:53:02Z",
"nvd_published_at": "2024-07-31T18:15:11Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "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.",
"id": "GHSA-5v8f-xx9m-wj44",
"modified": "2024-07-31T20:53:02Z",
"published": "2024-07-31T18:32:01Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-23444"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/106105"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/109834"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/07296d596a1dee24730e33ad40b6726f70c6fc23"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/321c4e1e6b738bf80faa41dbb9881489a4ab44e5"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/bb1eddada3678257838b0590090ff9eb68acaa1b"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-13-0-7-17-23-security-update-esa-2024-12/364157"
},
{
"type": "PACKAGE",
"url": "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N",
"type": "CVSS_V4"
}
],
"summary": "Elasticsearch stores private key on disk unencrypted"
}
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