CVE-2024-23444
MEDIUM4.9EPSS 1.5%Elasticsearch stores private key on disk unencrypted
Published: 7/31/2024Modified: 2/4/2026
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 (2)
- Bitnami/elasticsearch>= 7.0.0, < 7.17.23, >= 8.0.0, < 8.13.0
- Maven/org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch>= 8.0.0-alpha1, < 8.13.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | 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 |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM4.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
References (10)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-23444
- PATCHhttps://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch
- WEBhttps://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-13-0-7-17-23-security-update-esa-2024-12/364157
- WEBhttps://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/07296d596a1dee24730e33ad40b6726f70c6fc23
- WEBhttps://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/321c4e1e6b738bf80faa41dbb9881489a4ab44e5
- WEBhttps://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/bb1eddada3678257838b0590090ff9eb68acaa1b
- WEBhttps://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/106105
- WEBhttps://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/109834
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250404-0001
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250404-0001/