CVE-2024-23444
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CVE-2024-23444 is a high-severity vulnerability rated 7.5/10 on the CVSS scale. 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.. EPSS estimates a 0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness Enumeration
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Elastic | Elasticsearch | >= 7.0.0, < 7.17.23 |
| Elastic | Elasticsearch | >= 8.0.0, < 8.13.0 |
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