What is CVE-2022-23716?

CVE-2022-23716 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Cloud Enterprise, classified under Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2022-09-28.

How severe is CVE-2022-23716?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Elastic Cloud Enterprise

CVE-2022-23716

A flaw was discovered in ECE before 3.1.1 that could lead to the disclosure of the SAML signing private key used for the RBAC features, in deployment logs in the Logging and Monitoring cluster.

Published 2022-09-28 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.006 (48.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 48th percentile — 48.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: +0.001

Affected products

Elastic Cloud Enterprise — versions Versions through 3.1.1
Elastic Cloud Enterprise

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-532 — Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

References

www.elastic.co/community/security/ (Product)
discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-enterprise-3-1-1-security-update/315317 (Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-23716?: CVE-2022-23716 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Cloud Enterprise, classified under Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2022-09-28.
How severe is CVE-2022-23716?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.