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SCA: security update for org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (GHSA-5v8f-xx9m-wj44)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 411024

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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.
 (CVE-2024-23444)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5v8f-xx9m-wj44

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 411024

Version: Revision 1.10

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 6/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-23444

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 4.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/31/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/13/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-23444

cwe: CWE-311