GHSA-2hjr-vmf3-xwvp: Elasticsearch Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

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3. CVE-2023-49921

Elasticsearch Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jul 26, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jul 26, 2024

Package

maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (Maven)

Affected versions

< 7.17.16

>= 8.0.0, < 8.11.2

Patched versions

7.17.16

8.11.2

An issue was discovered by Elastic whereby Watcher search input logged the search query results on DEBUG log level. This could lead to raw contents of documents stored in Elasticsearch to be printed in logs. Elastic has released 8.11.2 and 7.17.16 that resolves this issue by removing this excessive logging. This issue only affects users that use Watcher and have a Watch defined that uses the search input and additionally have set the search input’s logger to DEBUG or finer, for example using: org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.input.search, org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.input, org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher, or wider, since the loggers are hierarchical.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-49921
• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-11-2-7-17-16-security-update-esa-2023-29/349179

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database

Jul 26, 2024

Last updated

Jul 26, 2024