What is CVE-2023-49923?

CVE-2023-49923 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Enterprise Search, classified under Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. CVSS score: 6.8/10. Published 2023-12-12.

How severe is CVE-2023-49923?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.8 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Elastic Enterprise Search

CVE-2023-49923

An issue was discovered by Elastic whereby the Documents API of App Search logged the raw contents of indexed documents at INFO log level. Depending on the contents of such documents, this could lead to the insertion of sensitive or private information in the App Search logs. Elastic has released 8.11.2 and 7.17.16 that resolves this issue by changing the log level at which these are logged to DEBUG, which is disabled by default.

EPSS: 0.006 (44.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Elastic Enterprise Search — versions 7.0.0, 8.0.0
Elastic Enterprise_search

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-532 — Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

References

security@elastic.co (Mitigation, Vendor Advisory)
security@elastic.co (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-49923?: CVE-2023-49923 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Enterprise Search, classified under Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. CVSS score: 6.8/10. Published 2023-12-12.
How severe is CVE-2023-49923?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.8 out of 10.