medium4.9
CVE-2024-23444
Elasticsearch stores private key on disk unencrypted
Impact
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.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| maven | org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch | >= 8.0.0-alpha1, < 8.13.0 | 8.13.0 |
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Elastic | Elasticsearch | from 7.0.0 before 7.17.23 from 8.0.0 before 8.13.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- GitHub advisory
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-13-0-7-17-23-security-update-esa-2024-12/364157
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250404-0001/
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5v8f-xx9m-wj44
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-23444
- 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