What is CVE-2023-6687?

CVE-2023-6687 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Agent, classified under Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. CVSS score: 6.8/10. Published 2023-12-12.

How severe is CVE-2023-6687?

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

Information disclosure in Elastic Agent

CVE-2023-6687

An issue was discovered by Elastic whereby Elastic Agent would log a raw event in its own logs at the WARN or ERROR level if ingesting that event to Elasticsearch failed with any 4xx HTTP status code except 409 or 429. Depending on the nat…

EPSS: 0.006 (43.7th 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 Agent — versions 7.0.0, 8.0.0
Elastic Elastic_agent

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-532 — Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

References

security@elastic.co (Mitigation, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-6687?: CVE-2023-6687 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Agent, classified under Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. CVSS score: 6.8/10. Published 2023-12-12.
How severe is CVE-2023-6687?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.8 out of 10.