vulnerability

Elastic Elasticsearch: CVE-2024-23444: Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 31, 2024
Added
May 13, 2025
Modified
May 13, 2025

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.

Solution

elastic-elasticsearch-upgrade-latest
Title
NEW

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