elastic/elasticsearch · Security
Elasticsearch stores private key on disk unencrypted
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-5v8f-xx9m-wj44
- CVE ID
- CVE-2024-23444
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 4.9 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 4.9 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v4
- 6.9 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
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 unencrypted even if the --pass parameter is passed in the command invocation.
CWEs
- CWE-311 · Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-23444 ↗
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-13-0-7-17-23-security-update-esa-2024-12/364157 ↗
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/106105 ↗
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/109834 ↗
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/07296d596a1dee24730e33ad40b6726f70c6fc23 ↗
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/321c4e1e6b738bf80faa41dbb9881489a4ab44e5 ↗
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/bb1eddada3678257838b0590090ff9eb68acaa1b ↗
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250404-0001 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5v8f-xx9m-wj44 ↗