Vulnerability Report

CVE-2024-23444

Title: Elastic Elasticsearch Cryptographic Failures

Cryptographic Failures

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2024-23444.

CWE Category CWE-311
Published Date Jul 31, 2024
Modified Date Apr 04, 2025
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.9 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.21%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2024-23444: 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.

Impacted Vendors

E
elasticsearch 1
E
elastic 1
A
anynines 1

Reference Links

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/
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.9
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2024-23444 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.