GHSA-5v8f-xx9m-wj44MediumCVSS 4.9

Elasticsearch stores private key on disk unencrypted

Published
July 31, 2024
Last Modified
April 7, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 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.

🎯 Affected products2

  • maven/org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch:>= 8.0.0-alpha1, < 8.13.0
  • maven/org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch:< 7.17.23

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