CVE-2024-23444 Elasticsearch elasticsearch-certutil csr fails to encrypt private key

What is CVE-2024-23444?

CVE-2024-23444 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, published on 31 Jul 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official 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: CWE-311

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-23444?

5 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch and elasticsearch. It affects 1 product.

Products include Elastic Elasticsearch.

How do I fix CVE-2024-23444?

Upgrade org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch to a fixed version for your release line: 7.17.23 or 8.13.0.

Is CVE-2024-23444 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-23444 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BIT-elasticsearch-2024-23444, GHSA-5v8f-xx9m-wj44, MINI-fpp9-8pwm-24r7, MINI-m5v4-v6gj-rhxc, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-23444.