BIT-elasticsearch-2024-23444

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Import Source

https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/elasticsearch/BIT-elasticsearch-2024-23444.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/BIT-elasticsearch-2024-23444

Aliases

Published

2026-09-07T10:34:33Z

Modified

2026-09-08T12:37:31Z

Summary

Elasticsearch elasticsearch-certutil csr fails to encrypt private key

Details

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.

Database specific

{
    "cpes":  [
        "cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:maven:*:*"
    ],
    "severity":  "High"
}

References

Affected packages

Bitnami / elasticsearch

Package

Name: elasticsearch
Purl: pkg:bitnami/elasticsearch

Severity

7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

7.17.23

Introduced

8.0.0

Fixed

8.13.0

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/elasticsearch/BIT-elasticsearch-2024-23444.json"