vulnerability

Elastic Elasticsearch: CVE-2023-31417: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:M/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Oct 26, 2023
Added
May 13, 2025
Modified
May 21, 2025

Description

Elasticsearch generally filters out sensitive information and credentials before logging to the audit log. It was found that this filtering was not applied when requests to Elasticsearch use certain deprecated URIs for APIs. The impact of this flaw is that sensitive information such as passwords and tokens might be printed in cleartext in Elasticsearch audit logs. Note that audit logging is disabled by default and needs to be explicitly enabled and even when audit logging is enabled, request bodies that could contain sensitive information are not printed to the audit log unless explicitly configured.

Solution

elastic-elasticsearch-upgrade-latest
Title
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