CVE-2024-23444

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/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
Related
Published
2024-07-31T18:15:11.983Z
Modified
2025-11-19T17:35:51.571661Z
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
Summary
[none]
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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/elastic/elasticsearch

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch
Events

Database specific

vanir_signatures

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    {
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "target": {
            "file": "qa/os/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/packaging/test/DockerTests.java",
            "function": "test600Interrupt"
        },
        "source": "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/61d76462eecaf09ada684d1b5d319b5ff6865a83",
        "digest": {
            "length": 935.0,
            "function_hash": "69844453905830246677820397096534298013"
        },
        "id": "CVE-2024-23444-3fa86dc6"
    },
    {
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "target": {
            "file": "qa/os/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/packaging/test/DockerTests.java"
        },
        "source": "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/61d76462eecaf09ada684d1b5d319b5ff6865a83",
        "digest": {
            "line_hashes": [
                "268439700297186282373755313812072452487",
                "26797522030344409565822344236984547088",
                "49674375891833826585064844018322645796",
                "241861009769944274883436754269135918658",
                "110241150124042836880806124194125742521",
                "4974205076996931494879974579405987532"
            ],
            "threshold": 0.9
        },
        "id": "CVE-2024-23444-bda6ba2f"
    }
]