CVE-2024-23444

highpriority · track · 30OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.002 · 11 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.21% (11th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

8 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 4.9–7.5

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.14.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.14.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · security@elastic.coexploitability 1.2 · impact 3.6

v3.14.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Trackcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-311USprimaryCWE-311US

affected products (8)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Elastic Elasticsearch7.x → 7.17.23enisa_euvdEU
Elastic Elasticsearch8.x → 8.13.0enisa_euvdEU
elastic elasticsearch7.0.0 → 7.17.23nvdUScpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
elastic elasticsearch8.0.0 → 8.13.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami elasticsearch< 7.17.23osvUSpkg:bitnami/elasticsearch
Bitnami elasticsearch8.0.0 → 8.13.0osvUSpkg:bitnami/elasticsearch
Maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch< 7.17.23osvUSpkg:maven/org.elasticsearch/elasticsearch
Maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch8.0.0-alpha1 → 8.13.0osvUSpkg:maven/org.elasticsearch/elasticsearch

advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2024-1739Elasticsearch: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Offenlegung von InformationenDeutsch2024-07-31csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, authentisierter Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in Elasticsearch ausnutzen, um Informationen offenzulegen.
GHSA-5v8f-xx9m-wj44Elasticsearch stores private key on disk unencrypted2024-07-31ghsa · osvUS
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.
BIT-elasticsearch-2024-23444Elasticsearch elasticsearch-certutil csr fails to encrypt private key2026-09-07vendor · osvUS
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.

also known as (5)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd cert_bund NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2024-07-31modified 2026-06-17

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references (5)

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