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Moderate severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 26, 2023· Updated Feb 13, 2025

Elasticsearch Insertion of sensitive information in audit logs

CVE-2023-31417

Description

Elasticsearch generally filters out sensitive information and credentials before logging to the audit log. It was found that this filtering was not applied when requests to Elasticsearch use certain deprecated URIs for APIs. The impact of this flaw is that sensitive information such as passwords and tokens might be printed in cleartext in Elasticsearch audit logs. Note that audit logging is disabled by default and needs to be explicitly enabled and even when audit logging is enabled, request bodies that could contain sensitive information are not printed to the audit log unless explicitly configured.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearchMaven
>= 7.0.0, < 7.17.137.17.13
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearchMaven
>= 8.0.0, < 8.9.28.9.2

Affected products

3

Patches

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