CVE-2024-23444

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-23444
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-23444.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-23444
Aliases
Downstream
CGA (122)
CLSA (1)
MINI (2)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
Published
2024-07-31T17:26:12Z
Modified
2026-08-12T15:15:01Z
Severity
  • 4.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
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 
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    "cna_assigner":  "elastic",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-311"
    ],
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    "unresolved_ranges":  [
        {
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                {
                    "introduced":  "7.x"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "7.17.23"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "8.x"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "8.13.0"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD"
        }
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}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/elastic/elasticsearch

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch
Events
Introduced
b7e28a7232616c7a21bc879a535d801b8553ba77
Fixed
61d76462eecaf09ada684d1b5d319b5ff6865a83
Introduced
1b6a7ece17463df5ff54a3e1302d825889aa1161
Fixed
09df99393193b2c53d92899662a8b8b3c55b45cd
Database specific
Show details 
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            "introduced":  "7.0.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed":  "7.17.23"
        },
        {
            "introduced":  "8.0.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed":  "8.13.0"
        }
    ],
    "source":  "CPE_RANGE"
}

Database specific

source 
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vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-08-12T15:15:01Z"