Vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch
CVE-2024-23444
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 unencrypte…
EPSS: 0.015 (81.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 4.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.
Affected products
- Elastic Elasticsearch — versions 7.x, 8.x
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2024-23444?
- CVE-2024-23444 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, classified under Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2024-07-31.
- How severe is CVE-2024-23444?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.