GHSA-5v8f-xx9m-wj44
Elasticsearch stores private key on disk unencrypted
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2024-23444
- Aliases
- BIT-elasticsearch-2024-23444
- CVSS_V3
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS_V4
- 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
Description
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.
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| Maven · org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch | introduced 8.0.0-alpha1, fixed 8.13.0 |
| Maven · org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch | introduced 0, fixed 7.17.23 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-23444 ADVISORY
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/106105 WEB
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/109834 WEB
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/07296d596a1dee24730e33ad40b6726f70c6fc23 WEB
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/321c4e1e6b738bf80faa41dbb9881489a4ab44e5 WEB
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/bb1eddada3678257838b0590090ff9eb68acaa1b WEB
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-13-0-7-17-23-security-update-esa-2024-12/364157 WEB
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch PACKAGE
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250404-0001 WEB
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database |