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

CVE-2024-23444

Elasticsearch elasticsearch-certutil csr fails to encrypt private key PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Elastic / Elasticsearch	affected 7.x before 7.17.23; affected 8.x before 8.13.0

CWE

CWE-311

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-13-0-7-17-23-security-update-esa-2024-12/364157

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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CVE

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https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250404-0001/