What is CVE-2023-46668?

CVE-2023-46668 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Endpoint, classified under Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. CVSS score: 4.6/10. Published 2023-10-26.

How severe is CVE-2023-46668?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.6 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Elastic Endpoint

CVE-2023-46668

If Elastic Endpoint (v7.9.0 - v8.10.3) is configured to use a non-default option in which the logging level is explicitly set to debug, and when Elastic Agent is simultaneously configured to collect and send those logs to Elasticsearch, then Elastic Agent API keys can be viewed in Elasticsearch in plaintext. These API keys could be used to write arbitrary data and read Elastic Endpoint user artifacts.

Published 2023-10-26 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.6 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (25.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 26th percentile — 25.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Elastic Endpoint — versions 7.9.0, 8.10.3

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-532 — Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

References

discuss.elastic.co/t/endpoint-v8-10-4-security-update/345203 (Release Notes)
www.elastic.co/community/security (Mitigation, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-46668?: CVE-2023-46668 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Endpoint, classified under Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. CVSS score: 4.6/10. Published 2023-10-26.
How severe is CVE-2023-46668?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.6 out of 10.