Elasticsearch stores private key on disk unencrypted
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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describes (1)
Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2024-23444US | high7.5OT elevated | — | ||
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… | ||||
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references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-13-0-7-17-23-security-update-esa-2024-12/364157WEB
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearchPACKAGE
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/07296d596a1dee24730e33ad40b6726f70c6fc23WEB
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/321c4e1e6b738bf80faa41dbb9881489a4ab44e5WEB
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/bb1eddada3678257838b0590090ff9eb68acaa1bWEB
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/106105WEB
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/109834WEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-23444ADVISORY
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