What is CVE-2024-37283?

CVE-2024-37283 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Agent, classified under Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-08-12.

How severe is CVE-2024-37283?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Elastic Agent

CVE-2024-37283

An issue was discovered whereby Elastic Agent will leak secrets from the agent policy elastic-agent.yml only when the log level is configured to debug. By default the log level is set to info, where no leak occurs.

Published 2024-08-12 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.006 (44.7th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 45th percentile — 44.7% 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: 0.000

Affected products

Elastic Agent — versions 8.6.0
Elastic Agent

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-532 — Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

References

discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-8-15-0-security-update-esa-2024-23/364635 (Patch, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-37283?: CVE-2024-37283 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Agent, classified under Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-08-12.
How severe is CVE-2024-37283?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.