VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2024-23444

CVSS score4.9 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.21%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2024-07-31
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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.

Weakness classification

  • security@elastic.co: CWE-311
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-311

Primary references