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CVE-2024-23444GHSA-5V8F-XX9M-WJ44BIT-ELASTICSEARCH-2024-23444

Elasticsearch elasticsearch-certutil csr fails to encrypt private key

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 7.17.23, 8.13.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Elastic Elasticsearch

    From 7.x · fixed in 7.17.23; From 8.x · fixed in 8.13.0

  • org.elasticsearch:elasticsearchMaven

    From 8.0.0-alpha1 · fixed in 8.13.0

  • org.elasticsearch:elasticsearchMaven

    fixed in 7.17.23

References 1

discuss.elastic.co