Is CVE-2024-23444 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2024-23444 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2024-23444?

CVE-2024-23444 has a CVSS v3 base score of 4.9 (MEDIUM).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2024-23444?

CVE-2024-23444 has an EPSS score of 0.21% (11th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2024-23444?

Upgrade Elasticsearch to 7.17.23 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2024-23444

MEDIUM

4.9

CVSS v3

NVD

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.

CWE-311

How to fix

Remediation Available

ElasticsearchWindows application

Affected:7.0.0 7.17.23Fixed in:7.17.23Elastic

Affected:8.0.0 8.13.0Fixed in:8.13.0Elastic

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredHigh

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityNone

AvailabilityNone

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Exploit Intelligence

0.21%probability of exploitation in 30 days

11thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 11% of all known CVEs.

References

Vendor Advisory1

discuss.elastic.co

Other references1

security.netapp.com

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-311 vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2026-27944	Critical	9.8	22%	-	Fix
CVE-2026-34486	High	7.5	16%	-	-
CVE-2019-11367	Critical	9.8	2.8%	-	Fix
CVE-2017-8221	High	7.5	2.7%	-	-
CVE-2016-10593	High	8.1	2.3%	-	-
CVE-2018-10698	Critical	9.8	2.3%	-	-

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2025-04-04.