Vulnerability · Published Dec 12, 2023 · Assigned by elastic
CVE-2023-49923Enterprise Search Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
Medium 6.8
In plain English
A medium-severity sensitive data in logs in Enterprise Search from Elastic. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 49% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
An issue was discovered by Elastic whereby the Documents API of App Search logged the raw contents of indexed documents at INFO log level. Depending on the contents of such documents, this could lead to the insertion of sensitive or private information in the App Search logs. Elastic has released 8.11.2 and 7.17.16 that resolves this issue by changing the log level at which these are logged to DEBUG, which is disabled by default.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Elastic | Enterprise Search | 7.0.0 – before 7.17.168.0.0 – before 8.11.2 |
Weakness: CWE-532 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N