CVE-2024-23444
CSIRTS triage
- What
- The elasticsearch-certutil tool fails to properly encrypt private keys in generated CSR certificates.
- Who is affected
- Elasticsearch deployments using elasticsearch-certutil to generate certificate signing requests.
- Urgency
- Medium priority; exposes private keys that should be encrypted, enabling certificate compromise.
- Action
- Update to a patched Elasticsearch version and regenerate all certificates with proper encryption.
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Exploitation outlook
- Low exploitation risk0.21% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 11% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Advisory coverage (1)
- mediumCVE-2024-23444: Elasticsearch elasticsearch-certutil csr fails to encrypt private keymsrc · 2026-08-06
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