# CVE-2022-23715: Information disclosure in Elastic Cloud Enterprise

> Attackers can view sensitive user passwords and keystore settings in logs due to improper logging in Elastic Cloud Enterprise.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 25 Aug 2022
- **Updated:** 3 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-9fgp-xgx7-gpx6

## What is CVE-2022-23715?

CVE-2022-23715 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Cloud Enterprise, published on 25 Aug 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A flaw was discovered in ECE before 3.4.0 that might lead to the disclosure of sensitive information such as user passwords and Elasticsearch keystore settings values in logs such as the audit log or deployment logs in the Logging and Monitoring cluster. The affected APIs are PATCH /api/v1/user and PATCH /deployments/{deployment_id}/elasticsearch/{ref_id}/keystore

Weakness: CWE-532 (Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-23715?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Elastic Elastic Cloud Enterprise.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-23715?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-23715 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-23715 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-23715 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Elastic Cloud Enterprise

- [CVE-2025-37729](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-37729/): Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Used in a Template Engine (critical 9.1)
- [CVE-2025-37736](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-37736/): Elastic Cloud Enterprise Improper Authorization (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2024-37282](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-37282/): Privilege escalation in Elastic Cloud Enterprise (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2023-31418](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-31418/): Elasticsearch uncontrolled resource consumption (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2018-3828](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-3828/): Information disclosure in Elastic Cloud Enterprise (high 7.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-23715 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-23715 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Cloud Enterprise, published on 25 Aug 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-23715 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Elastic Cloud Enterprise. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-23715/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-23715/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-23715
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23715
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-23715

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-23715/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.