Answer in brief
CVE-2024-23444 records a Medium severity (CVSS 4.9) vulnerability in Elasticsearch stores private key on disk unencrypted. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (maven), org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (maven). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 4.9. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (maven), org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (maven). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| org.elasticsearch:elasticsearchmaven | >=8.0.0-alpha1 <8.13.0 | 8.13.0 |
| org.elasticsearch:elasticsearchmaven | >=0 <7.17.23 | 7.17.23 |
Published upstream
Jul 31, 2024
Evidence: source:osv:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Sep 10, 2026
Evidence: source:osv:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Sep 10, 2026
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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