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GHSA-9MQ7-8HM8-Q3MP

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-08-12 15:30 – Updated: 2025-09-29 15:30

Details

An issue was discovered whereby Elastic Agent will leak secrets from the agent policy elastic-agent.yml only when the log level is configured to debug. By default the log level is set to info, where no leak occurs.

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium)


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

6.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

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CVE-2024-37283 (GCVE-0-2024-37283)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-08 23:34 – Updated: 2024-08-09 15:34

Title

Elastic Agent Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Summary

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

CWE

CWE-532 - Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Assigner

elastic

References

URL

Tags

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-8-15-0…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Elastic	Elastic Agent	Affected: 8.6.0 , < 8.15.0 (semver)

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GHSA-9MQ7-8HM8-Q3MP

CVE-2024-37283 (GCVE-0-2024-37283)

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