BIT-elasticsearch-2024-23444

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Elasticsearch elasticsearch-certutil csr fails to encrypt private key

view advisory published 2026-09-07Licence: per source

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.

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Related CVEs.

ID	severity	EPSS	exploitable	published
CVE-2024-23444US	high7.5OT elevated	0.21% (11th)	—	2024-07-31
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…

references

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-13-0-7-17-23-security-update-esa-2024-12/364157ADVISORY
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-23444WEB
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250404-0001/WEB

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