CVE-2023-31417 Elasticsearch Insertion of sensitive information in audit logs
Attackers can view sensitive credentials in cleartext audit logs if audit logging is enabled and deprecated URIs are used.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2023-31417?
CVE-2023-31417 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, published on 26 Oct 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Elasticsearch generally filters out sensitive information and credentials before logging to the audit log. It was found that this filtering was not applied when requests to Elasticsearch use certain deprecated URIs for APIs. The impact of this flaw is that sensitive information such as passwords and tokens might be printed in cleartext in Elasticsearch audit logs. Note that audit logging is disabled by default and needs to be explicitly enabled and even when audit logging is enabled, request bodies that could contain sensitive information are not printed to the audit log unless explicitly configured.
Weakness: CWE-532
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-31417?
5 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch and elasticsearch. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch Maven | From 7.0.0 | 7.17.13 |
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch Maven | From 7.0.0 | 7.17.13 |
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch Maven | From 8.0.0 | 8.9.2 |
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch Maven | From 8.0.0 | 8.9.2 |
elasticsearch Bitnami | From 7.0.0 | 7.17.13, 8.9.2 |
Products include Elastic Elasticsearch.
How do I fix CVE-2023-31417?
Upgrade org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch to a fixed version for your release line: 7.17.13 or 8.9.2.
Is CVE-2023-31417 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-31417 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Elastic Elasticsearch
- CVE-2015-1427 Elasticsearch Groovy Scripting Engine Remote Code Execution
- CVE-2014-3120 Elasticsearch Remote Code Execution
- CVE-2015-5377 Code injection in n/a
- CVE-2026-72649 Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Elasticsearch Leading to Remote Code Execution
- CVE-2026-72642 Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset in the Elasticsearch Machine Learning Native Inference Process
Sources
Also known as BIT-elasticsearch-2023-31417, GHSA-99pc-69q9-jxf2, MINI-h7rp-j9jc-w45m, MINI-hg43-3j8q-mq47, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-31417.