CVE-2024-23444 (GCVE-0-2024-23444)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-07-31 17:26
Modified
2025-04-04 23:03
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-311 - Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elastic | Elasticsearch |
Version: 7.x < 7.17.23 Version: 8.x < 8.13.0 |
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