CVE-2024-23444: Elastic Elasticsearch

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Elastic Elasticsearch: from 7.0.0, before 7.17.23 (fixed in 7.17.23); from 8.0.0, before 8.13.0 (fixed in 8.13.0)

Published 2024-07-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.