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ghsa-5v8f-xx9m-wj44

Vulnerability from github

Published

2024-07-31 18:32

Modified

2024-07-31 20:53

Severity ?

4.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
6.9 (Medium) - 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.

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  "id": "GHSA-5v8f-xx9m-wj44",
  "modified": "2024-07-31T20:53:02Z",
  "published": "2024-07-31T18:32:01Z",
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      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-23444"
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      "url": "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/106105"
    },
    {
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      "url": "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/109834"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/07296d596a1dee24730e33ad40b6726f70c6fc23"
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/321c4e1e6b738bf80faa41dbb9881489a4ab44e5"
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      "url": "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/bb1eddada3678257838b0590090ff9eb68acaa1b"
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      "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",
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}

cve-2024-23444

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2024-07-31 17:26

Modified

2024-07-31 18:45

Severity ?

4.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Summary

Elasticsearch elasticsearch-certutil csr fails to encrypt private key

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-13-0-7-17-23-security-update-esa-2024-12/364157

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	Elastic	Elasticsearch

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