7.5

CVE-2024-23444: elastic elasticsearch Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-23444CGA-2476-8rx2-32m3CGA-27f6-3qjc-r94g
Published 31-07-2024Last modified 04-04-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-23444 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data vulnerability in elastic elasticsearch. EPSS estimates a 0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.21%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 0 · Related 3
CGA-7HRW-X473-8Q8JCGA-G77R-CRQM-JQV5CGA-WMHM-XHFP-MV5W

Timeline

  1. 31-07-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-04-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

7 scores · 6 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.21%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

10%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.21% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.21%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Chainguard61 products
  • elasticsearch-7< 7.17.23-r0
  • elasticsearch-7-iamguarded< 7.17.23-r0
  • trino< 453-r1
  • trino-config< 453-r1
  • trino-oci-entrypoint< 453-r1
Wolfi59 products
  • trino< 453-r1
  • trino-config< 453-r1
  • trino-oci-entrypoint< 453-r1
  • trino-plugin-ai-functions< 453-r1
  • trino-plugin-bigquery< 453-r1
Elastic1 product
  • elasticsearch≥ 7.x, < 7.17.23 | ≥ 8.x, < 8.13.0 | ≥ 7.0.0, < 7.17.23 | ≥ 8.0.0, < 8.13.0
Org.elasticsearch1 product
  • elasticsearch≥ 8.0.0-alpha1, < 8.13.0 | < 7.17.23
Ubuntu1 product
  • elasticsearchAll versions (No fix recorded)

5 vendors · 123 products

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